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OREGON LAWS 



-AND 



REGULATIONS 



RELATING TO THE WORK OF 

LIVE STOCK 
SANITATION 




1919 



Salem, Oregon : 

State Printing Department 

1919 



Oregon Laws and Regulations 

Relating to the work of 

Live Stock Sanitation 

Containing 

Laws Relating to Live Stock Sanitation, Passed in 1913, Amended in 1917- 
1919; Sheep Inspection Laws of Oregon, Passed in 1907; Sheep 
Scabies Infected Premises Nuisance Law, Passed in 1917; Meat 
Inspection Law, Passed in 1917, and Regulations of the Live Stock 
Sanitary Board Governing Same; Tillamook County Dairy Herd 
Inspection Law, Passed in 1917, Amended in 1919; Tuberculin Test 
and Pasteurization Law, Passed in 1917; County Dairy Herd and 
Meat Inspection Law, Passed in 1919; Veterinary Medical Laws of 
Oregon, Amended in 1911; Rules and Regulations of the Live Stock 
Sanitary Board; and Other Information Relative to the Eradication 
of Animal, Diseases. 

Compiled Under the Direction of the 

STATE LIVE STOCK SANITARY BOARD 

19 19 




Salem, Oregon -. 

State Printing Department 

1919 






OREGON STATE LIVE STOCK SANITARY BOARD 

Members of Board 
Walter K. Taylor, President . . . Corvallis 
W. B. Barratt, Vice-President . . . Heppner 

Frank Brown Carlton 

J. N. Burgess Pendleton 

Frank Rogers Marshfield 

Harry West Scappoose 

Dr. David N. Roberg . . . . . Portland 

STATE VETERINARIAN AND SECRETARY TO BOARD 

Dr. W. H. Lytle ....... Salem 

ASSISTANT STATE VETERINARIANS 

Dr. C. M. Gardner Portland 

Dr. E. B. Osborn Portland 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY 

Allene High Salem 

COUNTY VETERINARIANS 

Appointed by county court under section 8, chapter 14, laws of 1913, 
as amended by section 2, chapter 412, laws of 1917. 

*Dr. W. V. Glaisyer, Coquille .... Coos 
Dr. B. E. Nevel, Prineville .... Crook 
Dr. L. L. Taylor, Condon .... Gilliam 
Dr. R. J. Bestul, Grants Pass . . Josephine 
Dr. A. G. Moore, Ontario .... Malheur 
Dr. W. G. Morehouse, Salem . . . Marion 
Dr. J. W. Goin, Dallas Polk 

fDr. E. L. Glaisyer, Tillamook . . Tillamook 
Dr. C. W. Lassen, Pendleton . . . Umatilla 
Dr. A. G. Paddock, Union .... Union 
Dr. E. R. Flack, Enterprise . . . Wallowa 

* County Meat and Herd Inspector, appointed under chapter 383, laws 

of 1919. 
t Dairy Herd Inspector, appointed under chapter 146, laws of 1917. 

ft. •t B. 
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VETERINARIANS BONDED 



To test animals to remain within the state and to inspect certain 
animals for interstate movement, in cooperation with the United States 
Bureau of Animal Industry and as per section 3, chapter 413, laws of 1919. 



♦Abbott, G. A Portland 

Anderson, C. M..... Portland 

Andrews, A. R Elkton 

Baddeley, J. C Athena 

Beletski, Theo Wasco 

Bestul, R. J Grants Pass 

Carter, Thos. B Portland 

Chase, E. E. Portland 

Cook, J. W Brownsville 

Coon, W. B Forest Grove 

Creamer, J. M Portland 

Derflinger, E. R Eugene 

♦Douglas, J. M Portland 

Flack, E. R.._.., Enterprise 

Gardner, C. M Portland 

Glaisyer, E. L Tillamook 

Glaisyer, W. V Coquille 

Goin, J. W .....Dallas 

♦Horn, L. W Newberg 

Howes, M Portland 

Hunt, R. E.. Roseburg 

Huthman, G. H Portland 

Johnson, H. C .Portland 

Johnson, M. M .Heppner 

Korinek, A. W Portland 

*Korinek, C. J McMinnville 

Korinek, G. F .....Portland 

Lassen, C. W Pendleton 

Lytle, W. H ....Salem 

McAlister, R. G Corvallis 

McDonald, A Oregon City 



LVLack, D. W Portland 

Masson, J. L Myrtle Point 

Miller, F. W Corvallis 

Mitchell, G. C Klamath Falls 

Moncrief, H. J Haines 

Moore, A. G Ontario 

Morehouse, W. G Salem 

Mylne, R. C McMinnville 

Nevel, B. E Prineville 

Nicol, R. J Lebanon 

Norman, C. T Albany 

Notz, F. T Baker 

Osborn, E. B Portland 

Paddock, A. G Union 

♦Patterson, W. J Salem 

Peed, J. A Hermiston 

Peterson, H. D Sheridan 

♦Prentice, C. O Klamath Falls 

Reagan, S. M Hillsboro 

Riley, H. W La Grande 

Robison, I. C McMinnville 

Silverwood, H. Portland 

Simms, B. T Corvallis 

Simmons, A. W. Silverton 

Sims, Thos Woodburn 

Smith, A. G Portland 

Smith, Roy Eugene 

Sorensen, J Hillsboro 

Taylor, L. L Condon 

Wright, C. C Portland 



Not yet authorized to inspect cattle for interstate movement. 



SECRETARY'S CERTIFICATE 



Office of the Secretary of 
The State Live Stock Sanitary Board 



State of Oregon, 
County of Marion, 



I, W. H. Lytle, Secretary of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, 
do hereby certify that the herein rules and regulations, numbered from 
1 to 24 consecutively and inclusive, as the rules and regulations of the 
State Live Stock Sanitary Board; and, that the herein rules and regula- 
tions, numbered from 1 to 16 consecutively and inclusive, as the rules 
and regulations of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, constituting 
ex officio the State Board of Sheep Commissioners; and, that the herein 
rules and regulations, numbering from 1 to 34 consecutively and inclusive, 
as the rules and regulations of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, 
charged with the duties of supervising the inspection and sanitation of 
meat and meat food products, are the rules and regulations duly and 
regularly adopted by the said Board at a regular meeting thereof, and 
are the rules and regulations passed and duly adopted in pursuance of 
the power conferred by the provisions of section 3 of chapter 14 of the 
session laws of Oregon for 1913, and amendments thereto, and section 21 
of chapter 417 of the laws of 1917, and are the rules and regulations 
now in force. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 
twenty-fifth day of September, A. D. 1919. 

(seal) W. H. Lytle, 

Secretary, State Live Stock Sanitary Board. 



Part I 
STATE LIVE STOCK SANITARY LAWS 

TOGETHER WITH THE 

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE BOARD 



Section 1. Live Stock Sanitary Board Created. 

Section 2. Organization of Board — Meetings — Regulations — Reports. 

Section 3. Duties Explained — Prevent Entry of Diseased Live Stock — 

Conduct Experiments. 
Section 4. Board to Examine Biological Products — Anthrax Vaccine 

Not to Be Used, When. 
Section 5. Board to Issue Bulletins. 

Section 6. Board to Appoint State Veterinarian — Salary. 
Section 7. Board May Appoint Deputy State Veterinarians — Salary. 
Section 8. Board May Recommend Appointment of County Veterinarians 

— Salary — To Report. 
Section 9. Municipal Veterinarians May Be Appointed Deputy State 

Veterinarians, When. 
Section 10. Governor May Ask Cooperation of Bureau of Animal 

Industry. 
Section 11. Board to Appoint Veterinarians to Examine Interstate 

Shipments. 
Section 12. Liability of Officers Appointed. 
Section 13. Veterinary Practitioners Must Report Certain Infectious 

Diseases. 
Section 14. Owners Must Report Existence of Certain Infectious Diseases. 
Section 15. Unlawful to Knowingly Sell Animals Infected With Con- 
tagious Diseases. 
Section 16. Unlawful to Allow Untested Cattle to Run at Large, When. 
Section 17. Manner of Entering Live Stock Into Oregon. 
Section 18. Owners of Infected Animals Liable for Damages, When. 
Section 19. Animals Dead of Any Disease Must Be Buried or Burned, 

When. 
Section 20. Animals Affected With Any Communicable Skin Disease 

Must Be Gathered, When. 
Section 21. Veterinarians Must Have Authority to Administer Tuberculin 

Test — Method of Giving Test. 
Section 23. Who May Administer Tuberculin Test — Method of Handling 

Tubercular Animals — Method of Receiving Indemnity. 
Section 24. Duties of State Veterinarian and Deputies — May Quarantine, 

When. 
Section 25. Cattle of State Institutions Must Be Tested, When— May Be 

Quarantined, When. 



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Section 26. Animals May Be Ordered Destroyed, When — May Be Quar- 
antined, When. 

Section 27. State Veterinarian to Investigate Diseases of Fowls — How- 
Treated. 

Section 28. Governor to Issue State or District Quarantine Proclamation, 
When. 

Section 29. State Veterinarian and Deputies May Call on Peace Officer, 
When. 

Section 30. No Regulation to Be Made Demanding Tuberculin Test, When. 

Section 31. Bovine Animals Sold at Public Auction, Exhibited at Fairs, 
Live Stock Expositions, etc., to Be Tested, When. 

Section 32. Owners of Herds Tested to Be Given Certificates, When. 

Section 33. Sheep Laws Amended. 

Section 34. Sheep Laws Repealed. 

Section 35. Sheep Laws Amended. 

Section 36. Certain Live Stock Laws Repealed. 

Section 37. Disposition of Moneys Collected as Fines — Who to Prosecute. 

Section 38. State to Furnish All Supplies. 

Section 39. Laws Not to Apply to Sheep, Except Making ex officio 
Officers of the Sheep Laws. 



RELATING TO LIVE STOCK SANITATION 



STATE LIVE STOCK SANITARY LAW 

(Chapter 14, Laws 1913, and amendments thereto.) 

Section 1. That a Board is hereby created and established to be 
known as the State Live Stock Sanitary Board. This Board shall consist 
of seven members. The Secretary of the State Board of Health shall 
be ex officio a member; and the remaining six shall be appointed by 
the Governor, all of whom shall be actively engaged in the breeding of 
live stock within this state, and shall be qualified electors thereof. The 
term of office of the members of said Board, except as hereinafter other- 
wise provided concerning the first appointees, shall be four years. The 
membership of the Board at the time of appointment and during incum- 
bency in office shall be distributed so that at least two members shall 
reside east of the summit of the Cascade Mountains, and at least two 
members west thereof. The members of the said Board and their 
successors in office shall be appointed by the Governor only upon written 
recommendation and nomination by the following bodies, to-wit: Two 
shall be recommended and nominated by the executive committee of the 
Oregon Woolgrowers' Association; two shall be recommended and 
nominated by the executive committee of the Oregon Purebred Live Stock 
Association; and two shall be recommended and nominated by the execu- 
tive committee of the Oregon State Dairymen's Association; provided, 
however, that should any of said bodies fail to make such recommendation 
within thirty days from the time of the taking effect of this act, or 
the existence thereafter of a vacancy to which it is entitled to recommend 
and appoint, then the Governor may make such appointment without 
recommendation; and, provided further, that if any person recommended 
is not deemed eligible or fit by the Governor, a new recommendation 
may be called for. The term of office of each of the first appointees 
shall begin on the first day of May, 1911. Three of said appointees shall 
hold office for the term of two years from said date; and three for the 
term of four years from said date. At the expiration of the term of 
office of each of said first appointees a successor shall be appointed, 
who shall hold his office for the term of four years and until his successor 
is appointed and qualified. In case of the death, resignation or removal 
of any member of said Board during his term of office, the Governor 
shall appoint a successor to serve the unexpired portion of the term of 
office. The Governor in making the first appointments shall designate 
the term to which each is appointed. Whenever a vacancy shall occur 
by expiration of the term, or otherwise, the appointment to fill the same 
shall be upon written recommendation and nomination of the executive 
committee of that one of the three bodies above named which recom- 
mended the first appointee whose successor in office, mediate or immediate 
the new appointee will become. Before entering upon their duties the 
members of the Board shall take and file the oath prescribed for state 
officers. .They shall receive no salary or pay for their services, but 
shall be entitled to the actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred 
in the discharge of their official duties, which shall not exceed four 
hundred dollars per year to any one member, and which per diem and 
expense shall be audited and paid in the same manner as the expenses 



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of the other state officers. Throughout this act, unless the context 
otherwise requires, the word "Board" means the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board. 

Section 2. Immediately after their appointment and the commence- 
ment of their term of office, the members of the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board shall meet at the state capitol and shall organize by electing one 
of their number president. Said Board shall have authority to make 
rules and regulations for its own government. It shall meet once in 
each ninety days, but may meet oftener when necessary. It shall have 
an office in the capitol of the state, where at least two meetings shall be 
held each year. Two meetings yearly may be held at some point in 
Eastern Oregon, to be determined by the Board. The said Board shall 
have power to subpoena and swear witnesses and to examine them when 
necessary in the performance of their official duties, or the investigation 
of any matter connected therewith; and any person who shall swear 
falsely before said Board as to any material matter concerning which 
it is conducting an investigation or hearing, shall on conviction be deemed 
guilty of perjury and be punished accordingly. The Board shall make 
a report to the Governor on January 1 of each year, showing the work 
performed by it during the preceding year. 

Section 3. It shall be the duty of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board 
to exercise a general sanitary supervision over the live stock and poultry 
of this state and as far as possible to protect the live stock and poultry 
of this state from disease; to take all measures necessary and proper in 
the judgment of the Board to eradicate infectious, contagious and 
communicable disease that may exist among live stock or poultry in the 
state, and to prevent the entry into this state of animals or materials 
liable to convey disease to the live stock or poultry of this state; to 
prohibit and prevent the sale or use of products dangerous to the health 
of live stock of this state; to conduct experiments tending to better the 
conditions of the live stock of the state; to publish bulletins upon animals 
and their diseases; to appoint such officers and employes as this law 
shall provide for to be appointed by them ; to supervise and direct the 
work of the officers and employes herein provided for; and to pass rules 
and regulations for the attainment of said objects and the enforcement 
of this law. The authority of law necessary for the execution of said 
duties and all other duties imposed by this act is hereby conferred. 

Section 4. It shall be the duty of the Board to obtain samples of 
vaccine, toxin, anti-toxin, serum, bacterin, or any other biological product 
used, sold or offered for sale in this state for the purpose of curing, 
detecting or preventing any animal disease, and to submit such samples 
to the United States Bureau of Animal Industry for examination and 
experiment, to determine the safety and reliability of such product; and 
should the said Jbureau find such "biological product dangerous or 
unreliable, the State Live Stock Sanitary Board shall issue a proclamation 
forbidding the sale and use thereof; and no person, firm or corporation 
shall sell, use or offer for sale or dispose of within this state to another 
except to return to the manufacturer, any such biological product for- 
bidden by any such proclamation of the Board, and no person shall sell, 
use or inject into any animal in this state any anthrax vaccine without 
first having obtained permission to do so from the Board, except of Cicers 



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of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, and any person who 
personally or as agent or employe shall violate any of the provisions of 
this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall 
be fined not less than $50 nor more than $250. 

Section 5. The Board may prepare and issue bulletins dealing with 
animal diseases, poultry diseases, and such other subjects as will in its 
opinion promote the animal industry of this state, to be distributed to 
interested persons. They shall be printed in the office of the state 
printer and by him delivered to the Board. 

Section 6. The Board shall appoint a State Veterinarian who shall 
be ex officio also the State Sheep Inspector, and shall with the assistance 
of his deputies, if any, perform all the duties of that office. Said State 
Veterinarian shall receive an annual salary to be fixed by the Board 
and limited to a minimum of $2,400 and a maximum of $3,000 per annum, 
to be paid in the same manner as the salary of other state officials; 
provided, that the salary of the State Veterinarian shall not be increased 
during his present term of office. No person shall be eligible to such 
appointment unless he is a competent and qualified graduate in good 
standing of a recognized veterinary college having a course of not less 
than three years, embracing terms of at least six months in each year. 
He shall hold office for the term of two years unless sooner removed by 
the Board. He shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office, 
and shall reside during his term of office at the capital. Before entering 
into the duties of his office he shall take the oath required of state 
officials and execute a bond to the state in the sum of $5,000 for the 
faithful performance of his duties, to be approved by the Secretary of 
State and placed on file. He shall make no charge against any one 
for -the performance of any of the duties imposed upon him by reason 
of his office. He shall have his office with the "State Live Stock 
Sanitary Board," of which he shall be secretary without additional com- 
pensation. In addition to his salary, the State Veterinarian shall receive 
his actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred in the performance 
of his official duties, which shall in no case exceed the sum of $1,600 in 
any one year, the said expenses to be approved by the President of the 
Board and to be audited and paid by the state in the same manner as 
the expenses of other state officials; the said State Veterinarian and 
his deputies shall be under the direction and control of the State Live 
Stock Sanitary Board, and he shall render to it a detailed yearly report 
of the work performed by himself, his deputies and all persons working 
under his control or direction. He shall be ex officio a member of the 
"State Board of Health." 

Section 7. Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by reason of the 
excessive prevalence of disease among any of the domestic animals of 
this state, the Board may appoint Deputy State Veterinarians, who shall 
be competent and qualified graduates in good standing of a recognized 
veterinary college, never to exceed two in office at any one time, who 
shall hold office subject to discontinuance at any time by the Board, to 
assist the State Veterinarian in eradicating such disease or diseases. 
Each such Deputy State Veterinarian shall receive a salary at a rate 
to be fixed by the Board and limited to a minimum of $1,600 and a 



10 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

maximum of $1,800 per annum for the time of his service, to be paid 
in the same manner as the salary of other state officers, and in addition 
thereto such Deputy State Veterinarian shall receive his actual and 
necessary traveling expenses, incurred in the performance of his official 
duties, in no instance to exceed $700 for each six months beginning with 
the fiscal year, and after approval by the State Veterinarian, to be paid 
in the same manner as the expenses of other state officers. The Deputy 
State Veterinarians shall at all times be under the direction of the 
State Veterinarian, but may be removed at any time by the Board. Such 
Deputy State Veterinarian, before entering upon the duties of his office, 
shall subscribe an oath of office, and shall execute a bond to the state 
in the sum of $1,000 for the faithful performance of his duties, which, 
after approval by the Secretary of State, shall be filed in his office. 
Except as in this act or in the rules and regulations otherwise expressly 
provided, Deputy State Veterinarians shall possess the same power and 
authority as is conferred upon the State Veterinarian. [Chapter 413, 
laws of 1919.] 

Section 8. When it appears by reason of the prevalence of animal 
disease in any county of this state, that there is need of additional 
assistance to carry out the purposes and provisions of this act, the Board 
may recommend to the county court of such county the appointment of 
a county veterinarian; and the court shall make the appointments as 
recommended. Such county veterinarian shall be a graduate of a 
recognized veterinary college and shall, before entering upon the duties 
of his office, execute a bond to the state in the sum of $1,000 for the 
faithful performance of his duties, and subscribe to the. oath of office 
required of state officials. He shall receive from the county a salary 
of $5 per day for each day actually spent in the performance of his 
official duties, but in no instance shall his employment exceed eighty 
days in any one year. In addition he shall receive his actual and 
necessary traveling expenses, which expenses shall be incurred only upon 
an estimate being submitted by the said county veterinarian to the 
county court, and an authorization granted from the county court to 
incur such expenses in connection with such official duties as may be 
performed. The said county veterinarian shall at all times work under 
the direction of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, and shall be governed 
by its rules and the provisions of this act. He shall, within his county, 
possess the full powers by this act and the rules of said Board given to 
Deputy State Veterinarians. At the expiration of each month each 
county veterinarian shall make a full report to the secretary of the 
Board showing the number of days he has been employed, the place and 
kind of service rendered, and expenses incurred, and if such report be 
satisfactory, the secretary of the Board shall approve it and forward it 
to the county court for approval and payment. [Chapter 412, laws 
of 1917.] 

Section 9. Whenever any incorporated city in this state shall have in 
its employ any veterinary sanitary officer engaged in the inspection of 
meat, milk or animals, and the qualifications of such officer are equal 
to those in this act provided for Deputy State Veterinarians, then the 
State Live Stock Sanitary Board may appoint such city veterinary 



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sanitary officer a Deputy State Veterinarian, and when so appointed 
such deputy shall possess the full authority of a Deputy State Veter- 
inarian, but such officer shall not be entitled to claim reimbursement 
from the state for any services rendered or expenses incurred; and 
his appointment at any time shall be revocable by the Board. 

Section 10. Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by the State Live 
Stock Board, the Governor shall ask through the Unfted States Secretary 
of Agriculture, the cooperation of the United States Bureau of Animal 
Industry for the purpose of controlling and eradicating any contagious, 
infectious or communicable disease that may exist among any of the 
animals of this state; and when the said bureau through its duly 
authorized officers, agents or employes shall be thus engaged, each of 
such officers, agents or employes, shall possess the full power and 
authority of a Deputy State Veterinarian under and by virtue of this 
act and the rules and regulations of the Board; but shall not be entitled 
to pay from this state for services he may perform. 

Section 11. The Board shall have authority to appoint, at different 
points in this state, certain reliable veterinarians to examine any of the 
animals enumerated in this act that are to remain within the state or 
to be moved to states where the sanitary laws require such examination, 
and provided the owner or owners request such inspection; it shall also 
be the duty of the said Board to specify and regulate the fees charged 
for such examination, and to remove such veterinarian whenever it may 
see fit; provided, that no inspector herein provided for shall make any 
charge against this state for such service as he may render; and, provided, 
further, that no veterinarian shall be eligible^ to appointment for this 
inspection until he has executed a bond to the State of Oregon in the 
sum of $1,000 for the faithful performance of his duties. [Chapter 413, 
laws of 1919.] 

Section 12. Any officer appointed under the provisions of this act, 
who by virtue of the power conferred upon him thereby, shall wrongfully 
or unlawfully injure or destroy the property of any person or persons, 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $250. 

Section 13. It is hereby made the duty of all persons practicing the 
art of veterinary medicine in this state to report to the State Veter- 
inarian all cases of glanders, farcy, hog cholera, swine plague, tubercu- 
losis, Johne's disease, avian tuberculosis, anthrax, blackleg, splenatic 
fever, rinderpest, rabies, dourine, scabies, or foot-and-mouth disease, 
that they may find existing among animals, within five days from the 
date any such case shall come to their knowledge. Any such person 
failing to comply with this provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $250. 

Section 14. It is hereby made the duty of every person, and of every 
employe of such person, who has upon his premises or in his possession 
or upon the public domain within this state, any domestic animal which 
is, or which he has good reason to suspect may be, affected with any 
infectious, contagious or communicable disease, immediately to report 
the same to the State Veterinarian. Any failure to report such a case, 



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or any wilful or malicious interference with or obstruction of the State 
Veterinarian or his deputy in the performance of his official duties, or 
attempt to conceal the existence of such disease, shall be a misdemeanor, 
and upon conviction such person or persons shall be fined not less than 
$50 nor more than $250. 

Section 15. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, 
agent or employe thereof, knowingly to sell, offer to sell, or in any 
manner to part with to another, any animal affected with any infectious, 
contagious or communicable disease or which has been exposed to such 
disease except for immediate slaughter in accordance with the meat 
inspection regulations of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
or to dispose of to another in any manner any animal that may be in 
quarantine until such time as the quarantine shall , have been raised by 
the proper officer, or to dispose of the meat or milk of any animal 
that may be affected with such contagious, infectious or communicable 
disease for use as food or for other purposes except in such manner 
as shall be provided for by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board ; 
provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed as 
interfering with the provisions of the state or national pure food or 
meat inspection laws except that the milk from tuberculose cows may be 
sold under such regulations for its sterilization before use as food as 
the Board may adopt. Any person, persons, firm or corporation, or their 
agents or employes, who shall violate any of the provisions of this 
section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be 
fined not less than $50 nor more than $250. 

Section 16. Except in counties where stock is by law at the time 
allowed to run at large, it shall be unlawful for any person to allow 
any bovine animal to run at large upon any public highway bordered 
on either side by land on which tuberculin tested cattle are kept, unless 
such bovine animal shall have been tested with tuberculin within one 
year and shall have been found free from tuberculosis; any person who 
shall violate the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $250. 

Section 17. Any person, persons, firm or corporation, or their agents, 
or employes, who shall knowingly drive, or cause to be driven, bring or 
cause to be brought in any manner whatsoever, into this state any 
domestic animal affected with any contagious, infectious or communicable 
disease shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be 
fined not less than $50 nor more than $25~0; and it shall be unlawful for 
any person, persons, firm or corporation, their agent or employe, to 
bring or cause to be brought into this state any cattle for dairy or 
breeding purposes, excepting strictly range cattle, unless the same shall 
first have been tested with tuberculin and found free from tuberculosis 
by an inspector of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, or in 
case such inspector can not be had then they may be tested by an 
approved veterinarian, or unless the same shall be submitted to the 
tuberculin test as hereinafter provided for, within ten days after the 
arrival in this state; where cattle for breeding or dairy purposes, except- 
ing strictly range cattle, are brought into this state without having been 
first tested, and found free from tuberculosis by an inspector of the 



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United States Bureau of Animal Industry, or other approved veterinarian, 
they shall within ten days after arrival in this state, be tested with 
tuberculin by either an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry, the 
State Veterinarian, or County Veterinarian, and any animal or animals 
that react with tuberculin having been so brought into this state shall 
be immediately destroyed under the direction of the said veterinarian 
making the said test and in accordance with the rules and regulations of 
the State Live Stock Sanitary Board; where cattle for breeding or dairy 
purposes, excepting strictly range cattle, shall have been brought into 
this state without first having been tested with tuberculin by an inspector 
of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, the State Veterinarian, 
or County Veterinarian, or other approved veterinarian, it is hereby 
made the duty of any person, persons, firm or corporation, their agent 
or employe, or any railroad company, steamboat or transportation line 
bringing such cattle into this state, to immediately, upon crossing the 
state line, mail to the said State Veterinarian, a copy of the certificate 
showing that the said cattle have been tested with tuberculin by an 
inspector of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, or other 
approved veterinarian, or a statement that the cattle have not been so 
tested, showing the name of the owner or agent in charge of the said 
cattle, together with their kind, number and destination and the probable 
time of their arrival at said destination. Any person, persons, firm or 
corporation, their agent or employe, who shall violate any of the provi- 
sions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $250. 

Section 18. Whenever any animals affected with an infectious, con- 
tagious or communicable disease shall be or become, through the fault 
or negligence or with the previous knowledge of the owner, owners, or 
persons in charge of same, mingled with healthy animals owned by 
another, the owner or owners of such diseased animal or animals shall 
be liable in an action for damage sustained by the owner of the healthy 
animals by reason of such negligence. 

Section 19. Any person who shall knowingly leave the carcass of 
any domestic animal which he has owned or had in charge, within 
one-half mile of any dwelling or within one-fourth mile of any running 
stream of water for longer than fifteen hours without burying or 
burning the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $250. 

Section 20. Any owner, owners, their agent or employe, having in 
his or their control or possession or on the range within this state any 
domestic animal or animals affected with or exposed to mange, scab, 
or other communicable skin disease, shall upon the order of the State 
Veterinarian, or his deputy, cause the said animal or animals to be 
dipped or otherwise treated in such manner as will effect a cure of such, 
disease. For directions in the dipping, treating and handling of such 
animal or animals the rules of the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture shall be accepted as a standard. If after ten days' notice so to do 
such owner, owners, their agents or employes shall refuse to gather 
and dip or otherwise treat the said animal or animals in accordance 
with the orders of the State Veterinarian, or his deputy, the said officer 



14 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

shall cause the said animal, or animals, to be gathered and dipped or other- 
wise treated so as to eradicate such disease, in accordance with the rules 
of the United States Department of Agriculture ; the expense of gathering, 
holding, treating, dipping, spraying and feeding such animals shall be 
paid by the owner, owners, agent or employe in charge of such animal 
or animals, and if not paid within five days after receiving notice of 
such expense, the said officer shall sell at public auction, after giving 
six days' previous notice in two newspapers in the county, a sufficient 
number of said animals to pay all costs incident to the gathering, holding, 
treating, dipping, spraying, feeding and sale of such animal or animals, 
the said sale to be conducted in accordance with the law relating to the 
sale of personal property on execution of the court. 

Section 21. No persons, except inspectors of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry, the State Veterinarian or his deputies, shall inject, apply or 
instil any tuberculin into any bovine animal in this state, or any mallein 
into any equine animal in this state, without first having applied to 
and received permission to do so from the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board. Only such methods of tuberculin and mallein tests shall be 
permitted to be used, as are approved by the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board, and such methods of administering such tests shall be used as 
are indicated by the Board in regulations that they shall issue governing 
such tests; provided, that in giving the subcutaneous tuberculin test, 
such person, persons, their agents or employes, shall, within twenty-four 
"hours before injecting such tuberculin take, with a good reliable clinical 
thermometer, the animal's temperature on two occasions four hours 
apart, and beginning the tenth hour after the injection of such tuberculin 
shall take, in the manner specified, the animal's temperature at least 
once ever three hours, until nineteen hours have elapsed from the 
time of such injection, which temperature shall be accurately recorded; 
and the person or persons injecting, applying or instilling any tuberculin 
or mallein, shall within five days thereafter, make an accurate written 
report to the State Veterinarian giving a description sufficient for identi- 
fication of the animal so tested, the place and date of test, the name and 
address of the owner, the amount of tuberculin or mallein used, and the 
temperatures recorded, designating the times at which they were taken 
before and after injection of such tuberculin or mallein, the date of appli- 
cation or instillation of such tuberculin or mallein, as the case may be, 
and the result of such test; provided, further, that any person, persons, 
firm or corporation, their agents or employes, who shall sell, give away 
or dispose 01, to another any tuberculin or mallein in this state, shall 
within three days thereafter, make a written report to the State Veterin- 
arian, showing the name and address of the person or persons to whom 
such tuberculin or mallein was delivered and the number of doses so 
disposed of; provided, that the Board may by resolution order indemnity 
money paid for any equine animal, legally owned or brought into the 
state of Oregon, which is affected with glanders or has reacted positively 
to an approved test for glanders. The said indemnity money shall be paid 
upon a certificate of test, slaughter and proper disinfection being filed 
with the State Veterinarian, out of the funds appropriated for the main- 
tenance of the Board, and shall be paid in the following amounts : For 
each horse, mule, ass or jenny weighing not to exceed one thousand pounds, 



RELATING TO LIVE STOCK SANITATION 15 

twenty-five dollars, and for each horse, mule, ass or jenny weighing over 
one thousand pounds, thirty-five dollars; any person, persons, firm or 
corporation, their agents or employes who shall violate any of the pro- 
visions of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- 
viction shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $250. [Chapter 
412, laws of 1917.] 

Section 23. The State Veterinarian or any of his deputies or the 
county veterinarian or the inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
or any other officer or person upon whom like powers are in this act 
conferred, shall possess authority to test with tuberculin any bovine 
animal kept or herded within this state, subject to such rules and regu- 
lations as the Board may enact; and when such bovine animal is found 
by the officer making the test to give what the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board shall have prescribed by its rules to be a clearly defined reaction to 
such test, the said animal shall be considered to be affected with bovine 
tuberculosis and shall be marked or branded in such manner as the Board 
shall designate. If the owner or owners of such reacting animal shall then 
desire to keep it, such option is allowed provided the animal does not, in 
the judgment of the officer making the examination and test, show evi- 
dence of physical breakdown, then or at any time thereafter, probably due 
to the disease, and it shall then be the duty of the State Veterinarian or 
his deputy to place such animal in quarantine, and the owner or owners 
thereof, their agents or employes shall maintain the said animal in 
quarantine as prescribed by the State Veterinarian or his deputy, and the 
product or products of such reacting animal shall only be disposed of 
under such restrictions as the State Live Stock Sanitary Board shall 
designate. If the owner of any such reacting bovine animal shall desire to 
slaughter it and to receive indemnity therefor as hereinafter provided 
he shall be required by the Board before such slaughter to execute an 
agreement with the Board that he will thoroughly clean and disinfect 
all premises that may have been infected by such reacting animal and 
make all reasonable needed sanitary improvements in such manner as the 
said Board shall prescribe; will have his entire herd of bovine aimals 
tested with tuberculin by the State Veterinarian or deputy at such time 
as the Board shall designate; will cause to be tested with tuberculin all 
bovine animals he shall purchase or obtain, before they shall be mixed 
with any other animals. Such agreement shall be in duplicate, one copy to 
be retained by the signer, and in such form as the Board shall designate, 
and shall be signed by the owner or owners or their agents, and shall be 
in effect for a period of two years from the date thereof. After such 
agreement has been executed it shall be the duty of the State Veterinarian 
or deputy to see that the animal is slaughtered and the carcass disposed 
of in accordance with the meat inspection regulations of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, or in such manner as the State Live 
Stock Sanitary Board shall prescribe. If upon examination the carcass 
or parts thereof shall be found of value, the owner shall be entitled to' 
receive such sum as may be obtained therefor less any expense of the 
handling and sale. When the animal is to be slaughtered, as herein pro- 
vided, the State Veterinarian or deputy, shall make and deliver to the 
owner a certificate which may cover any number of animals belonging to 
the said owner, showing the age and description of each animal tested and 
found to give clearly defined tuberculin reaction and which the owner has 



16 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

elected to slaughter, the name and place of test, the mark or brand placed 
upon each of such animals evidencing their condition as tuberculose and 
any other mark or brand which the animal may bear, the date when and 
the place to which the animal was sent for slaughter, the designation of the 
officer who is to supervise the slaughter, the name and address of the 
owner of the animal and the fact that he has executed the agreement 
hereinbefore provided for. The consent of the owner to the slaughter 
shall be indorsed or written on said certificate. Prior to slaughter or 
at the time thereof, an appraisement shall be made of all animals elected 
to be slaughtered. Such appraisement shall be made jointly by repre- 
sentatives of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry; provided, 
such bureau has superintended the testing and inspection of such herd 
or animal, and a veterinarian of the state, county or municipality. If 
the representative of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry and 
the representative of the state, county or municipality shall disagree as 
to the amount of the appraisal, or if the owner refuses to accept the 
appraised value, the animal shall be appraised in the same manner as 
when tested by the state, county or municipality. In such instances the 
veterinarian making the test or supervising the slaughter and the owner 
or party in charge of the animal or animals shall make the appraisal. 
In the event of their failing to agree upon the value of the animal the 
county judge of the county in which the animal is located shall appoint 
a disinterested practical dairyman or livestock breeder who shall serve 
as a third arbitrator and the decision reached by any two of these three 
appraisers shall be final. The appraiser appointed by the county judge 
shall be paid a per diem of three dollars per day and mileage of 10 cents 
per mile one way by the owner of the cow or cattle. Such moneys shall 
be paid by the county court out of the indemnity moneys due the owner. 
The officer supervising the slaughter shall, immediately after the same, 
indorse upon or add to the foregoing certificate that he has witnessed the 
slaughter of each of said animals, the place and date thereof, that the 
number, age, description and brand correspond to those given in the cer- 
tificate of the officer who made the former certificate ; and shall state the 
disposition made of the carcass. The slaughter may be supervised and 
certificate thereof may be made by the State Veterinarian or any of his 
deputies, or any person possessing the authority of a deputy, or by any 
officer of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry. The Board may 
require such other particulars to be added to either of said certificates or 
affidavit hereinafter required, and may make and enforce such rules and 
regulations governing the handling, shipping and slaughter of such ani- 
mals as may be deemed necessary. After such reacting animals shall have 
been slaughtered as herein provided for, the owner or owners thereof shall, 
within thirty days, file with the county court of the county in which said 
animal or animals were owned at the time they were tested, as herein pro- 
vided, the foregoing certificates, together with his claim for indemnity ver- 
ified as an affidavit, setting forth the number of animals slaughtered, the 
date and place of tuberculin test and of slaughter, the number over two 
years of age, the number over one year and under two years, that the 
animals are the same identical animals described in the accompaning 
certificates of the officers making the test and supervising the slaughter, 
the name of the person who supervised the slaughter, that all of the 
animals for which indemnity is claimed had been continously in this state 



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for one year next preceding the date on which they were tested with 
tuberculin, or that the certificate is produced hereinafter mentioned 
in subdivision 6, that they had been owned in said county for a period 
of thirty days next preceding the date on which they were tested with 
tuberculin, that each of said animals had reacted to said test, the name 
of the officer who made the test, that none of the animals were steers 
or castrated bulls, and that affiant has thoroughly cleaned and disin- 
fected his premises and made ordered sanitary improvements, and 
complied with all the regulations of the Board in respect thereto and in 
respect to the remainder of his herd; and if any of said slaughtered 
animals were registered in any registry of blooded stock recognized by 
the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of 
Agriculture, then the names and registry numbers, the ages and other 
particulars concerning said registration. Such affidavit shall also show 
that none of the exceptions hereinafter stated which would exclude the 
claim for indemnity apply as to any of the animals slaughtered. The 
court shall set down such claim for hearing and any person may appear 
and show cause against it. 

A notice of such hearing may be ordered by the county court posted 
by the claimant in three public places in the county for at least one week 
in advance thereof, and proof therof filed. If the said county court, 
upon examination of the certificates filed as aforesaid, and of the affi- 
davit of the claimant and any other evidence that may be presented, 
shall find that the claim is regular and the facts therein set up are true, 
and that the claimant is entitled to indemnity as herein provided, the 
county court shall make an order allowing to the claimant as indemnity 
money the deficit between the salvage money derived from the sale of 
the carcass, if such there be, and the appraised value; provided, that in 
no case shall the county court be required to make an order and pay any 
deficiency that will make the total amount received by the owner from 
the state and county more that fifteen dollars ($15) for any grade 
heifer over one and under two years of age; or more than thirty-five 
dollars ($35) for any grade cow two years of age or over; or more than 
twenty-five dollars ($25) for any registered heifer or bull over one and 
under two years of age; or more than fifty dollars ($50) for any regis- 
tered cow or bull two years of age or over, in which lesions of tubercu- 
losis are demonstrated upon postmortem examination; and provided 
further, that in no case shall the county court be required to make an 
order and pay any deficiency between the salvage money derived from 
the sale of the carcass and the appraised value of the animal that will 
make the amount received by the owner from the state and county more 
than fifty per cent additional for each animal as herein described in which 
no lesions of tuberculosis are demonstrated upon postmortem examination. 

One half of said amount allowed as indemnity shall be paid upon 
order of the county court out of the general funds of the county. The 
county court shall transmit to the Secretary of State a certified copy 
of its findings as to the amount of indemnity payable to the claimant, 
and the Secretary of State shall then issue his warrant upon the State 
Treasurer, in favor of the claimant, for the remaining one-half of the 
indemnity allowed, which shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated 
under this act. The right to indemnity shall not exist nor shall payment 
be made in either of the following cases: 



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1. For animals owned by the United States, this state or any county, 
city, town or village in this state. 

2. For animals brought into this state contrary to the provisions 
of this act, or where the owner of the animal or the person claiming 
compensation has failed to comply with the provisions of the same. 

3. When the owner or claimant at the time of coming into possesion 
of the animal knew or had good reason to believe it to be afflicted with 
a contagious or infectious disease. 

4. When the animal slaughtered was diseased at the time of its 
arrival in this state. 

5. When the owner shall have been guilty of negligence or had 
wilfully exposed such animals to the influence of a contagious or infec- 
tious disease. 

6. When the animal slaughtered shall have been brought into this 
state within one year prior to such slaughter, unless the owner or the 
person in charge shall produce the certificate of the duly qualified 
veterinary surgeon who is a graduate of a reputable veterinary college, 
issued within ten days of the date of the importation, showing such 
animal to oe free from tuberculosis at the time of its arrival in the state. 

7. When the animal was previously affected with any other disease 
which from its nature was incurable and necessarily fatal or which was in 
a dying condition when offered for slaughter. [Chapter 413, laws 1919.] 

• Section 24. It shall be the duty of the State Veterinarian or his 
deputy to investigate all cases or suspected cases of infectious, contagious 
or communicable diseases in any domestic animals or fowls in this state, 
and to make official visits of inspection to any locality where he has 
reason to believe such a disease exists; he shall possess authority to 
order and compel the destruction of any animal that may be affected 
with any dangerous or incurable, infectious, contagious or communicable 
disease, and to order the disposal of the carcass in such manner as 
will prevent the further spread of such disease, but this shall not apply to 
any bovine animal found to be affected with tuberculosis, unless in the 
judgment of the officer making the inspection and test the animal shows 
evidence of physical breakdown probably due to the disease. He shall 
possess authority to order the quarantine of any animal or animals 
that may be affected with or exposed to the contagion of any infectious, 
contagious or communicable disease and to require the thorough clean- 
ing and disinfecting of all premises that may have been exposed to the 
contagion or any such disease. He shall possess authority to quarantine 
any field, feed yard, barn, shed, stable, railroad car, stock yard, steam- 
boat or other premises that may have contained any animal or animals 
affected with or exposed to any infectious, contagious or communicable 
disease for such period of time as will insure the freedom of such premises 
from liability to spread such disease. All expenses of such cleaning, 
disinfecting and quarantine shall be borne by the owner or person in 
possession of the premises. When he is engaged in the performance of his 
official duties, he shall possess authority to enter any field, feed yard, 
barn, stable, railroad car, steamboat or other premises; provided, that 
nothing in this section shall apply to any field, feed yard, barn, shed, 
stable, railroad car, stock yard, steamboat, or other premises under the 



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direction or control of the . officials of the United States Bureau of 
Animal Industry. 

Section 25. It shall be the duty of the State Veterinarian or his 
deputy to test with tuberculin at least once each year, all of the cows 
that supply milk, cream, buttermilk, or skimmed milk to any state 
institutions' or their inmates, and all animals failing to pass such test 
shall at once be removed from the dairy and herd so supplying milk, 
and the further use of their milk is prohibited except under such re- 
strictions as the State Live Stock Sanitary Board may prescribe. It is 
hereby made the duty of the officers in charge of such state institutions to 
report quarterly to the State Veterinarian the names and addresses of all 
persons from whom such institutions obtain milk, cream, buttermilk, or 
skimmed milk;and any person who shall knowingly supply to any state 
institution or its inmates, milk, cream, buttermilk or skimmed milk from 
cows suffering from tuberculosis or any other disease, shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $50 nor 
more than $250. 

Section 26. Whenever upon the examination of any animal or animals 
the State Veterinarian or his deputy shall find them affected with any 
infectious, contagious, or communicable disease of a dangerous or incura- 
ble type (excepting cases of tuberculosis where the officer making 
the test and inspection shall not, aside from the tuberculin test, find 
evidence of physical breakdown then or at any time thereafter, probably 
due to disease) he shall forthwith order the owner or person in charge, 
his agent or employe, to slaughter such affected animal or animals; 
and all other animals of the same herd or flock shall be considered as 
exposed to such disease and the State Veterinarian or deputy shall 
forthwith notify in writing the owner, agent or employe, to quarantine 
them in such a manner and for such a period of time as may be deemed 
necessary by the State Veterinarian, or his deputy, to insure the freedom 
of such animal or animals from such disease; and shall further notify 
such owner, agent or employe, to clean up and disinfect in such manner 
as the officer giving the notice shall prescribe all premises that may have 
been infected by reason of the existence of such disease; and any owner, 
agent or employe who shall refuse to slaughter such diseased animals, 
or to obey the provisions of such quarantine, or who shall refuse to clean 
or refuse to disinfect such premises in accordance with the orders of the 
State Veterinarian, or his deputy, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $250. 

Section 27. It shall be the duty of the State Veterinarian or his 
deputy to investigate all cases of infectious, contagious or communicable 
disease that may exist among any chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese or 
other domestic or wild fowl or birds kept within this state; and when 
such State Veterinarian or his deputy shall find such fowls or birds 
infected with or exposed to any such disease of a serious nature, he shall 
order them placed in quarantine until they are cured, and for such 
time as he shall deem sufficient to prove their freedom from disease 
and require the owner or person in charge of such fowls or birds to 
clean and disinfect all infected premises in such manner as the State 
Veterinarian or deputy may direct; provided, however, that whenever 
such fowls or poultry shall be found affected with tuberculosis he shall 



20 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

require such owner or person in charge to slaughter and destroy all 
fowls or birds so infected. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, 
offer to sell or dispose of to another, any fowl or bird that is affected 
with or exposed to any „ infectious, contagious, or communicable disease. 
Any person, persons, firm or corporation, their agents or employes, who 
shall violate or refuse to obey any lawful order of the State Veterinarian 
or his deputy relating to the provisions of this section, or who shall 
violate any of the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of a misde- 
meanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $50 nor more 
than $250. 

Section 28. Whenever the Governor of this state upon the advice 
of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board has reason to believe that any 
infectious, contagious, or communicable disease of domestic animals 
exists in any locality of this state, he may issue a proclamation placing 
such portion of the state in quarantine and forbidding the removal of 
any animal or material liable to convey such disease from such portion 
of this state unless such animal or material has first been inspected 
by the State Veterinarian or his deputy and found free from disease or 
exposure thereto. Any person, persons, firm or corporation, or their 
agents or employes, who shall, after the issuance of such proclamation 
by the Governor, remove without lawful inspection any animal or mate- 
rial as defined in the proclamation of the Governor from such portion of 
the state as may be included in such quarantine, shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $50 nor 
more than $250, and such person shall further be liable for all damage 
resulting from such removal; provided, hotvever, nothing in this section 
shall prohibit the removal by steamboat or railway train of such animal 
or animals from such portion of this state under such restrictions as 
may be prescribed by the regulations of the United States Department 
of Agriculture. 

Section 29. The State Veterinarian or any of his deputies may at 
any time call upon any peace officer for assistance in the discharge of 
his duties, and such peace officer shall give such assistance as may be 
requested; and any person who wilfully hinders, obstructs or resists 
the State Veterinarian or his deputy, or any peace officer acting under 
him when engaged in the duties or exercising the powers herein con- 
ferred, or violates any quarantine established by him, or them, shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less 
than $50 nor more than $250. 

Section 30. No rule shall be promulgated by the Board making a 
tuberculin or other test a prerequisite to the sale or exchange of animals 
within the State of Oregon. 

Section 31. No bovine animal over one year old shall be exhibited 
at any state, district or county fair, or live stock exposition within 
the state unless within twelve months prior to such exhibition it has 
been subjected to a tuberculin test and received a certificate of health 
from a qualified veterinarian; provided, the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board shall have authority to exempt from inspection the bovine animals 
exhibited at any county or district fair, or livestock show or exposition, 



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other than the Oregon State Fair. Such exemption certificate must be 
in writing and must be issued by authority of the State Live Stock 
Sanitary Board, and must be signed by the President and Secretary of the 
Board. No entry for exhibition shall be accepted until such certificate is 
filed. 

No public auction sale of any herd or part of a herd of dairy animals, 
or animals intended for breeding purposes, shall be held except under 
the process of court, unless all the animals offered for sale have, within 
twelve months prior to such sale, been submitted to a tuberculin test and 
received a certificate of health from a qualified veterinarian, setting 
forth the following facts: That the animals have given a negative 
reaction to a board-approved method of tuberculin test administered in 
a careful, correct and conscientious manner; that the owner has executed 
a sworn statement that no infectious abortion or abortion disease (char- 
acterized by a premature delivery of the fetus, retained placenta or 
sterility) has existed in the herd for a period of two years next preced- 
ing the date of the sale, or that abortion or abortion disease has existed in 
certain animals of the herd within a period of two years next from 
the date of sale, and that certain stated animals have aborted or exhibited 
other symptoms but appear to be free from the disease. Such sworn 
statement, if abortion or abortion disease is reported to have been present 
within the herd within two years next from date of sale, must be 
announced to the patrons of the sale by the auctioneer, who is by this 
act, held equally liable with the owner for the violation of this section; 
provided, the Board may exempt from inspection and the tuberculin 
test, the bovine animals offered for sale at public auction in any certain 
district in Oregon, in which tuberculosis and abortion or abortion disease 
is not known to exist or be prevalent. Such public sale inspection 
exemption must be in writing and must be issued by authority of the 
State Live Stock Sanitary Board and must be signed by the president 
and secretary of the Board. 

Any person who exhibits or permits the exhibition of any animal in 
violation of the provisions of this section, and any person who violates 
any other provision of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than 
$250. [Chapter 412, laws of 1917.] 

Section 32. Whenever any official examination is made by the 
State Veterinarian or any of his deputies, or any person authorized 
to perform the duties of such office under this act, of any animal or 
herd of animals and such animal or herd of animals is found free from 
contagious, infectious and communicable disease, the officer making 
such examination shall make and deliver to the owner or person in 
possession of such animal or herd, a certificate to that effect under 
such rules and regulations and in such form as the board may prescribe; 
and whenever an examination or test is made as to any particular disease 
and the animal is found free therefrom, a certificate of the fact shall 
be given to the owner. 

Section 33. Section 1 of chapter 223 of the general laws of Oregon 
enacted by the twenty-fourth regular session of the legislative assembly 



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of the state of Oregon, held in the year 1907, is hereby amended to 
read as follows: 

Section 1. The State Live Stock Sanitary Board shall constitute 
ex officio the Board of Sheep Commissioners, and shall perform all of 
the duties and possess all of the powers by law heretofore or here- 
after imposed upon or vested in the Board of Sheep Commissioners. 

Section 34. Section 3 of chapter 223 of the general laws of Oregon 
enacted by the twenty-fourth regular session of the legislative assembly 
of the state of Oregon, held in the year 1907, is hereby repealed. 

Section 35. Section 4 of chapter 223 of the general laws of Oregon 
enacted by the twenty-fourth regular session of the legislative assembly 
of the state of Oregon, held in the year 1907, is hereby amended to read 
as follows: 

Section 4. The State Veterinarian shall be ex officio the State 
Sheep Inspector and each of his deputies shall be authorized to perform 
the duties of a deputy State Sheep Inspector; and all the duties imposed 
by law and all the powers conferred by law upon the State Sheep Inspec- 
tor shall be exercised by the State Veterinarian. Time spent and expenses 
incurred by the State Veterinarian and his deputies in the performance 
of their duties in sheep inspection shall be considered as coming under 
their duties and expenditures as State Veterinarian and deputy state 
veterinarians, without extra compensation. The bond of such officers 
shall cover their duties as sheep inspectors as well as their other duties. 

Section 36. Chapter 312 of the general laws of the state of Oregon 
enacted at the twenty-fifth regular session of the legislative assembly 
of said state, held in the year 1909, is hereby repealed; and sections 
4281, 4282, 4283, 4284, 4285, 4286, 4289, 4290, 4291, and 4292 of Bellinger 
& Cotton's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Oregon, are hereby repealed; 
and there is hereby appropriated out of any funds belonging to the 
state not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars 
per annum as a continuing appropriation for the purpose of carrying into 
effect the terms of this act and the payment of the necessary expenses 
herein provided for; and all acts or parts of acts insofar as they conflict 
with this act are hereby repealed. 

Section 37. All fines and penalties imposed under the provisions of 
this act shall be collected in behalf of and in the name of this state, 
and shall become a part of the general fund thereof; and all offenses 
herein declared to be misdemeanors shall be prosecuted by the several 
district attorneys of the state in the same manner as misdemeanors are 
prosecuted under the general laws of the state; and it is hereby made 
incumbent upon such district attorneys to act in either civil or criminal 
matters under this act when asked to do so by the State Veterinarian 
or by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board. 

Section 38. All bulletins, notices, rules, regulations, blank forms 
and instructions, books and stationery which may be needed by the 
State Live Stock Sanitary Board and the State Veterinarian shall be 
furnished by the state and shall be printed, upon request of the Board, 
in the office of the state printer and delivered by him to the Board. 



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Drugs, laboratory supplies and materials needed by the State Veterinarian 
and deputies for the performance of the duties herein imposed shall be 
paid for by the state in the same manner as other expenses of the Board 
are paid. 

Section- 39. The provisions of this act (excepting constituting the 
State Live Stock Sanitary Board ex officio the Board of Sheep Commis- 
sioners, and making the State Veterinarian ex officio the State Sheep 
Inspector, and conferring authority for sheep inspection upon his depu- 
ties) , shall not apply to sheep ; and this act shall not be considered to 
repeal in any manner chapter 223 of the general laws of Oregon enacted 
at the twenty-fourth regular session of the legislative assembly held in 
the year 1907, execpting such sections as are hereby expressly repealed or 
amended. 

This act shall apply to all domestic animals other than sheep and 
to fowls; and also to wild animals kept in captivity within this state. 



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REGULATIONS GOVERNING LIVE STOCK IN THE 
STATE OF OREGON 

REGULATION No. 1. 

All persons desirous of shipping or driving live stock of any class into 
the state of Oregon, shall secure, at the point of origin, a certificate of 
health for the same, from the government, State or Deputy State Vet- 
erinarian or a graduate veterinarian approved, by the State Veterin- 
arian, or like officer, declaring the said animals to be free from all conta- 
gious diseases. A copy of said health certificate should be attached to 
the way bill accompanying shipment and a copy should be sent to the 
State Veterinarian, Salem, Oregon. 

REGULATION No. 2. 

All cattle excepting settlers' and homesteaders' effects, imported 
into Oregon from that territory east of the Mississippi river and north 
of the Tennessee-North Carolina north boundary line, must first receive 
a written permit from the State Veterinarian to be moved into the state 
before such movement can be made. All cattle originating in the states 
of New York or Wisconsin must be tuberculin tested by a federal veter- 
inarian unless otherwise ordered. All cattle from Illinois to be tuber- 
culin tested by federal veterinarians or veterinarian approved in writing 
by State Veterinarian of Illinois. 

REGULATION No. 3. 

All certificates signed by state officials and accepted by the state 
of Oregon, shall be on official blanks furnished by the state in which 
the shipment originated and if issued by other than a State, Deputy 
or Federal Veterinarian, the approval of the State Veterinarian or other 
like officer should be in writing upon the certificate or authority for issu- 
ance certified to, one copy of such certificate must be mailed immediately 
to the State Veterinarian of Oregon, and one copy shall be attached 
to the way bill which shall be collected by the agent at destination of 
shipment and copy mailed to the State Veterinarian, Salem, Oregon. 

REGULATION No. 4. 

All swine brought into the state of Oregon or moved within the 
state for purposes other than immediate slaughter, shall be shipped or 
transported only in thoroughly cleaned and disinfected cars, crates, boats 
or other means of transportation. Those animals originating outside 
the state of Oregon and moved into the state shall, in addition, be cer- 
tified to as originating in a district that has been free from infectious 
and contagious diseases of swine for a period of at least six months, 
unless said animals have been immunized with the Dorset-McBride-Niles 
serum, by an official veterinarian, or are consigned to a public stock yard 
for purposes of immediate slaughter, in which case they need no 
inspection. 



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REGULATION No. 5. 

Horses, mules and asses will be admitted into the state of Oregon, 
only when accompanied by a health certificate including the mallein, 
complement fixation, or other approved test for glanders, unless exemp- 
tion permits have been granted the owner or person in charge, which 
exemption permits shall issue when stock is for racing or exhibition 
purposes, or breeding horses originating in European or other foreign 
ports having federal inspection. 



REGULATION No. 6. 

It shall not be deemed a violation of the regulations of the Live Stock 
Sanitary Board relative to the movement of horses, mules and asses into 
the state of Oregon, to issue exemption permits relieving nearby state 
owners from submitting their animals to the mallein or other test to 
determine their freedom from glanders if such movement is to be only of 
a temporary nature and the animals are to all appearances in sound and 
perfect health. 

REGULATION No. 7. 

Animals, other than cattle, shipped into Oregon for the purpose of 
exhibition or display at state and other fairs may be shipped in under 
the following regulations : 

The State Veterinarian must be notified of any intended shipment 
at least two days prior to the date of loading from the point of origin. 
Such notification must specify name of owner, name of man in charge, 
point of origin of shipment, date shipped, number and kind of animals, 
number and initial of cars and name of railroad to be shipped over. All 
sheep shipments must be made in disinfected cars unless crated. All 
swine must be either shipped in thoroughly clean and disinfected cars 
and loaded through cleaned and disinfected corrals, chutes and alleys or 
must be immunized by Dorset-McBride-Niles hog cholera serum prepared 
or approved by the United States Bureau of Animal Industry. Such 
shipments must not be unloaded en route unless crated. On arrival at 
destination all such animals must be unloaded through chutes specially 
provided for, which shall have been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. 

REGULATION No. 8. 

All circus stock must be accompanied by a clinical health certificate 
issued not more than thirty days prior to entry into Oregon. A copy 
of such health certificate also affidavit signed by manager or person in 
charge of stock, stating that no animal will be used for breeding, sold or 
disposed of in any manner, while within the state of Oregon, except on 
authority from the State Veterinarian or Assistant, and under the regu- 
lations of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, must be mailed to the 
State Veterinarian at Salem, Oregon, two days previous to the entry of 
stock. Circus stock shipped into Oregon under the above regulations shall, 
at all times, be subject to the inspection of the State Veterinarian or his 
assistants. 



26 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

, REGULATION No. 9. 

It shall be deemed unlawful for any railroad, steamboat or other 
transportation company, to ship swine from one district to another within 
the state of Oregon or to transport or ship swine into the state of Oregon 
in cars or other means of transportation, for purposes other than imme- 
diate slaughter, until such cars or other means of transportation have 
been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected under the direction of a State, 
Assistant State, or County Veterinarian or an inspector of the United 
States Bureau of Animal Industry or other duly appointed agent, who 
shall give a certificate of such inspection and disinfection, which said 
certificate shall accompany the shipment. Such cleaning and disinfec- 
tion shall be performed in the following manner: All litter, bedding 
or refuse shall be removed from the car. The car or other means of trans- 
portation shall then be washed and a disinfection solution of six ounces 
of liquor cresolis compositus (U. S. P.) or carbolic acid to each gallon 
of water or other reliable disinfectant shall be applied as a spray, adding 
enough lime to show where it has been placed. 

REGULATION No. 10. 

Veterinarians throughout the state of Oregon appointed under sec- 
tion 3 of chapter 413, of the session laws of Oregon for 1919, to examine 
animals intended for interstate shipment shall serve only at the pleasure 
of the Board and pending their compliance with the sanitary laws of 
the state and the rules and regulations of the Board. No veterinarian 
shall be allowed to make inspections of live stock, other than cattle 
for interstate movement or shipment unless he has been bonded to the 
state of Oregon and authorized by the Board and has been issued a 
pocket authorization card, which shall read as follows: 

OREGON STATE LIVE STOCK SANITARY BOARD 
Office of State Veterinarian 
Know ye, That reposing special trust and confidence in the ability 

and integrity of 

of , and in accordance 

with section 3, chapter 14, laws of 1913, we do hereby commission and 
empower him, during the pleasure of the Board to tuberculin and mallein 
test within the state; and in accordance with section 3, chapter 413, 
laws of 1919, do further commission and empower him during the pleas- 
ure of the Board, to examine animals to remain in the state or to be 
moved to states where the sanitary laws require such examination, pro- 
vided owner requests such examination and appointee conforms to the 
regulations regarding fees, methods and manner of giving the test 
established by the Board. 

Dated at \ 

Void after year stamped on card. 



State Veterinarian and Secretary. 

No veterinarian shall be privileged to administer the tuberculin test 
to any animal for intended interstate movement unless said veterinarian 
has received an appointment in accordance with paragraph A of section 



RELATING TO LIVE STOCK SANITATION 27 

2 of regulation 7 of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry or a 
regularly qualified and acting United States Bureau of Animal Industry 
veterinarian. 

REGULATION No. 11. 

All racing or trotting horses for fair exhibition purposes, coming into 
the state of Oregon,. for the sole purpose of racing or exhibition purposes, 
shall be permitted to enter on a clinical health inspection made by a 
federal, state or authorized veterinarian. On this health inspection cer- 
tificate there must appear the name of horse and race meets at which it 
is to compete or fair or livestock exhibition at which it is to be shown. 
No race or exhibition horses so inspected shall be used for the purpose 
of breeding when in this state unless by a special permit from the State 
Veterinarian. Race or exhibition horses so inspected may remain within 
the state of Oregon for six months at the end of which period they must 
either be shipped out of the state or comply with the regulations per- 
taining to the importation of horses into the state of Oregon. Notice 
must be given the State Veterinarian's office by the owner of the animals 
so inspected when they leave the state. Race or exhibition horses which 
leave the state of Oregon for meets in other states or Canada, if re- 
turned within six months, shall not be required to pass a mallein or other 
test on reentry into Oregon but must be accompanied by health certifi- 
cate, provided that before leaving the state of Oregon, their return per- 
mit is secured, upon which shall appear name of animal, description, 
name of owner, person in charge and any other necessary data, and said 
permit shall be good for a period of six months, provided the animal has 
not been used for breeding or any other purposes, except racing and 
exhibition purposes while outside the state of Oregon. 

REGULATION No. 12. 

From and after this date all railroad, steamboat, or other transpor- 
tation companies, shall, before receiving and loading any animals for 
purposes other than range or immediate slaughter, first thoroughly 
clean and disinfect the car or other means of conveyance. Such cleaning 
and disinfection shall be performed in the following manner. All litter, 
bedding or refuse shall be removed from the car or other means of trans- 
portation, and the same shall then be washed and a disinfection solution 
of six ounces of liquor cresolis compositus (U. S. P.) or carbolic acid to 
each gallon of water or other reliable disinfectant shall be applied as a 
spray, adding enough lime to show where it has been placed. Box cars 
and other rooms that are enclosed can be disinfected after washing by the 
burning of formaldehyde candles or the use of a formaldehyde generator. 

REGULATION No. 13. 

It shall be deemed a violation of quarantine for any person or persons 
to place or cause, authorize or permit any animal or animals, other than 
those already quarantined, to be placed in any inclosure or district that 
has been placed under quarantine by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board 
or an accredited agent thereof. 



28 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

REGULATION No. 14. 

No animal or animals in quarantine by the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board or accredited agent thereof, shall be removed from such district 
or quarantine, sold, exchanged or disposed of in any other manner until 
released from such quarantine by written order of the State Live Stock 
Sanitary Board or an accredited agent thereof. 

REGULATION No. 15. 

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS 

Tuberculin of all kinds, mallein, anthrax vaccine, hog cholera serum 
and virus, tetanus antitoxin, and rabies virus shall have the endorse- 
ment of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry and the State 
Veterinarian of Oregon before said product shall be sold in Oregon. 

(A) To sell or handle antihog cholera serum or hog cholera virus in 
Oregon, all dealers in, or makers of, said serum or virus shall make 
application to the State Veterinarian for a permit, and the application 
shall give the name and address of the dealer or maker, the number of 
the federal license under which the serum and virus are made, and 
subscribe or agree to comply with the following requirements : 

1. The name and address of the firm, person or persons to whom 
the serum or virus is shipped, the exact quantity of serum or virus, 
the date of make of the serum or virus, the lot number and the license 
number of each shipment shall be sent to the State Veterinarian of 
Oregon within two (2) days after each and every shipment is made. 

2. Virus should be shipped into Oregon only on ice or in a vacuum 
tube on ice. The name and address of the maker or dealer, the date of the 
killing of the pigs from which the virus is derived, the exact per cent 
of carbolic acid in it, the date when said virus is unsafe for use, and 
a standard dose table shall be placed upon the label of each virus bottle. 

3. No hog cholera virus shall be shipped or sent or brought into 
Oregon except to authorized graduate veterinarians, and other persons 
or dealers who shall receive permits from the State Veterinarian of 
Oregon to sell, handle or administer hog cholera virus. 

(B) Dealers, druggists, users and manufacturers of anthrax vaccine 
shall secure a permit from the State Veterinarian of Oregon before sell- 
ing, giving away or using anthrax vaccine in Oregon. 

1. Said dealers, druggists, users and manufacturers shall not sell or 
give away or use anthrax vaccine in any place or to any one in Oregon, 
until a definite and positive diagnosis has been made by the United 
States Bureau of Animal Industry, the State Veterinarian or some 
legally recognized authority and anthrax vaccine shall be administered 
only by graduate veterinarians who are endorsed by the State Veter- 
inarian of Oregon. 

2. A specific statement of each and every shipment or sale of anthrax 
vaccine or anthrax serum in Oregon shall be sent at once to the State 
Veterinarian and the manufacturer, druggist, dealer and veterinarian 
shall specify the quantity of anthrax vaccine and serum sold or given 
away or used and the name and address of the party or parties receiving 
it and of the veterinarian who administers it, and the veterinarian shall 
give the exact location and the number of animals vaccinated and the 
name and address of the owner of said animals. 



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REGULATION No. 16. 

GOVERNING THE ADMISSION AND TUBERCULIN TESTING OF 

CATTLE 

1. Dairy and breeding cattle, including all bulls imported for use 
on the open range over the age of six months may enter the state of 
Oregon only upon an official health certificate issued in accordance with 
the live stock sanitary laws, section 17, showing them to be free of any 
evidence of tuberculosis or other contagious, infectious, or communicable 
disease based upon an individual physical examination and a tuberculin 
test as follows: 

When the subcutaneous method of applying the tuberculin test is 
used, the chart shall show that at least three temperatures were taken 
two or three hours apart before injection of tuberculin; that at least 
seven temperatures were taken two hours apart after the injection, 
beginning not later than eight hours after the injection of the tuberculin, 
and that the test had run for a period of not less than twenty hours 
after the injection. 

When the intradermal test is used, the chart shall show that obser- 
vations at the forty-eighth, seventy-second and, if possible, ninety-sixth 
hour have failed to reveal any evidence of a reaction. 

Copy of health certificate to be mailed to the State Veterinarian in 
time to reach him before arrival of animals at destination. 

Cattle imported as above will be subject to a retest by the State 
Veterinarian at destination when deemed necessary by him, and any 
reactors found upon such retest disposed of as provided by law. 

2. Cattle for feeding or grazing purposes only, originating at a 
"public stock yards," may enter the state of Oregon in accordance with 
section 3, regulation 7, Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, upon affidavit of the owner or shipper upon the 
form provided by the Bureau of Animal Industry for that purpose, pro- 
vided a copy of such affidavit bearing the endorsement of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry representative in charge at a "public stock yards" 
is forwarded to the State Veterinarian in time to reach him before the 
arrival of cattle at destination. Cattle for feeding or grazing purposes 
only, not originating at a "public stock yards," may enter the state of 
Oregon only upon a permit from the State Veterinarian under such 
conditions and restrictions as he may prescribe. 

3. Cattle from a tuberculosis free accredited herd under the super- 
vision of the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of 
Agriculture, and the state of origin may enter the state of Oregon upon 
an official certificate from an inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry 
or the authorities of the state of origin, showing them to be from such 
a herd and that they have not been exposed to infection by tuberculosis, 
since leaving the herd of origin. Copy of such certificate to be mailed 
to the State Veterinarian in time to reach him before arrival of cattle at 
destination. 

4. Cattle which have reacted to the tuberculin test may be brought 
into the state of Oregon for immediate slaughter only and must be 
consigned direct to a slaughtering establishment under the supervision 
of the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, and transported thereto strictly in accordance with section 4, regula- 



30 OREGON LAWS' AND REGULATIONS 

tion 7, Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of 
Agriculture. 

5. Cattle for immediate slaughter may enter the state of Oregon with- 
out inspection, provided they are consigned direct to a recognized 
slaughtering establishment, the way bills marked "for immediate 
slaughter"; no part of the shipment diverted en route within the state 
of Oregon; that they are slaughtered within a reasonable time, and no 
part of the consignment removed from the immediate premises of the 
slaughtering establishment previous to slaughter without written permis- 
sion from the State Veterinarian. 

6. Castrated and strictly range cattle — namely, branded animals of 
the recognized beef type only, which have been born and reared under 
range conditions — may enter the state of Oregon without restrictions. 

AN ACCREDITED HERD OF CATTLE 

1. An accredited tuberculin tested, pure bred herd is one which has 
been tuberculin tested by the subcutaneous method, or any other test 
approved by the Bureau of Animal Industry, under the supervision of the 
Bureau of Animal Industry, or a regularly employed veterinary inspec- 
tor of the state in which cooperative tuberculosis eradication work is 
being conducted jointly by the United States Department of Agriculture 
and the state. Further, it shall be a herd in which no animal affected 
with tuberculosis has been found upon two annual or three semi annual 
tuberculin tests, as above described, and by physical examination. 

2. The entire herd, or any cattle in the herd, shall be tuberculin 
tested or retested at such time as is considered necessary by the federal 
and state authorities. 

3. No cattle shall be presented for the tuberculin test which have 
been injected with tuberculin within sixty days immediately preceding, 
or which have at any time reacted to a tuberculin test. 

4. No herd shall be classed as an accredited herd in which tubercu- 
losis has been found by the application of the test as referred to in 
paragraph 1, until such herd has been successfully subjected to two 
consecutive tests with tuberculin, applied at intervals of not less than six 
months, the first interval dating from the time of removal of the 
tuberculous animal from the herd. 

5. Prior to each tuberculin test satisfactory evidence of the identity 
of the registered animal shall be presented to the inspector. Any grade 
cattle maintained in the herd, or associated with animals of the herd, 
shall be identified by a tag, or other marking, satisfactory to the state 
and federal officials. 

AGREEMENT FOR THE TUBERCULIN TESTING OF HERDS OF 
PURE BRED CATTLE 

WHEREAS, the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, for the purpose of improving the pure bred 
dairy and beef breeds of cattle in the United States, encouraging recogni- 
tion of the importance of maintaining herds of such cattle free from 
tuberculosis, and promoting the interchange of healthy pure bred cattle, 



RELATING TO LIVE STOCK SANITATION 31 

proposes so far as available funds permit, to cooperate with the breeders 
of pure bred cattle by assistaing them to eradicate tuberculosis from 
their herds and maintain them free from that disease. 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of receiving assistance from 
the said Bureau of Animal Industry along the lines and for the purposes 

specified, I, , of , 

(Name of owner) (Postoffice address) 

owner of the herd of cattle comprising ' 

.(Breed and number over six months old) 

, do hereby agree to cooperate with the 

(Breed and number under six months old) 
said bureau upon the following terms : 

I will permit my entire herd, or any cattle of my herd, to be tuber- 
culin tested or retested at such times as are considered necessary by the 
Bureau of Animal Industry. 

I will not present any cattle for the tuberculin test which have been 
injected with tuberculin within two months immediately preceding, or 
which have at any time reacted to a tuberculin test. 

I will present, prior to each test, to the inspector of said bureau, 
certificates of registration for each pure bred and registered animal 
offered by me to the tuberculin tests, such certificates to be accepted 
as identification of the animal offered. Any grade females maintained 
in the herd, or associated with animals of the herd, must be identified 
by a tag or other marking satisfactory to the Bureau of Animal Industry. 

I will report ' promptly to the said Bureau of Animal Industry every 
transfer of cattle from my herd, giving the identification of the animal 
and the name and address of the person to whom transferred. 

I will cause all animals which show evidence of tuberculosis of the 
upper or superficial glands, progressive loss of condition or emaciation, 
or other visible evidence of tuberculosis, to be promptly slaughtered 
under the United States meat inspection regulations, and I will cause 
the carcases of said animals to be disposed of according to the meat 
inspection regulations of the Bureau of Animal Industry, based upon 
the lesions found upon post mortem inspection. 

I will cause all animals which react to the tuberculin test, but which 
show no other evidence of tuberculosis, to be slaughtered and disposed 
of as herein provided for animals which show also other evidence of 
tuberculosis, or I will cause such animals to be removed from the herd 
and portion of the farm upon which the healthy animals of the herd 
are maintained to a location approved by the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
and I will cause such animals to be maintained in such form of quar- 
antine as may be directed by the Bureau of Animal Industry. 

It is agreed that quarantined reacting bulls may be used for breeding, 
provided they are held upon the staff, their sexual organs properly dis- 
infected, and the cow restrained by some suitable method so as not 
unnecessarily to be exposed to tuberculosis from the bull or infected 
premises. 

I will not permit the slaughter of any tuberculous animals as indicated 
by physical examination or tuberculin test, except at a time and place 
approved by the Bureau of Animal Industry. 

I will cause, in all cases where the milk or milk products from 
quarantined reacting cows are to be used for any food purposes what- 
ever, the said milk or milk products to be first submitted to pasteuriza- 



32 ; OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

tion at not less than 140 degree Farenheit for not less than 30 minutes, 
or to the point of active boiling; but I will not sell such milk or products 
in violation of any state, city, or other legislation. 

I will cause the calves from quarantined reacting cows to be removed 
from their mothers at birth, to be maintained upon premises free from 
infection with tuberculosis, and to be fed upon the milk of cows which 
have passed a satisfactory tuberculin test or upon the pasteurized or 
boiled milk of tuberculin reactors. 

I will allow no cattle to be associated with my herd which have not 
passed a tuberculin test approved by the Bureau of Animal Industry. 
I will keep all new cattle separated from my herd pending the approval 
of the tuberculin test or the application of a tuberculin test by an 
inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry. I will notify the Bureau 
of Animal Industry immediately, giving details of the identification 
characteristics and records of tuberculin tests of any cattle which may 
be added to my herd. 

I will surrender any premises contaminated by tuberculous animals, 
as indicated by a physical examination or a tuberculin test, to a thorough 
cleaning and disinfection, at my expense, under the direction or super- 
vision of the Bureau of Animal Industry. I will comply with all reason- 
able sanitary measures and other recommendations by the Bureau of 
Animal Industry for the control of tuberculosis. 

Violation of the letter or spirit of this agreement by me shall be 
considered sufficient cause for the immediate cancelation of this agree- 
ment and the withdrawal of cooperation by the Bureau of Animal 
Industry. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have signed this agreement this 

day of , one thousand nine hundred and 



Owner of the herd. 

Address - 



Witness : 



RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING TUBERCULOSIS. 

Rule A. All cattle presenting a socalled positive reaction to the 
tuberculin test, excepting pure blooded animals, and others presenting 
unmistakable evidence of tuberculosis shall be fire branded on the 
right jaw with the letter "T," which shall be two and one-half inches 
(2V 2 inches) in height by two inches (2 inches) in width. Such ani- 
mals as show no evidence of physical breakdown may be placed under 
quarantine and so kept until they show evidence of disease or are 
offered for indemnity by the owner. 

Rule B. Physical breakdown as used in section 4, of chapter 413, of 
the laws of 1919, shall be deemed to mean (in animals that have reacted to 
the tuberculin test and held under quarantine) : 

(a) Pronounced unthriftiness, such as loss of flesh, harsh, rough, 
thick skin with dead hair, when such animal is not aged and is well cared 
for and fed. 



RELATING TO LIVE STOCK SANITATION 33 

(6) Pronounced persistent cough, not loud but often when door is 
opened in the morning. 

(c) Enlarged glands in region of throat, especially when they cause 
difficulty in breathing. 

(d) Loss of appetite, (seen in later stages of disease). 

(e) Persistent bloating, (sometimes enlarged glands of throat prevent 
passage of gas from rumen to mouth by pressure on gullet) . 

(/) Persistent diarrhoea (is seen in cattle infected with bowel lesions) . 

(g) Hard lumps in udder, (at first tuberculosis shows no lesions in 
the udder but after a time should there be udder lesions, hard lumps will 
be found after the udder is milked out) . Milk from such an udder should 
in no case be allowed use for any purpose. 

DIRECTIONS FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE SUBCUTANEOUS 

TUBERCULIN TEST AND THE ISSUING OF INTERSTATE 

TUBERCULIN TEST CHART AND HEALTH 

CERTIFICATE 

1. So far as practicable, the cattle should be stabled under usual 
conditions and with usual surroundings. 

2. The cattle should be fed and watered in the customary manner, 
except that it should be done only immediately after the measuring of 
temperatures. Occasionally it is advisable to limit the quantity of con- 
centrated food given animals under test. This is especially true if large 
quantities of that kind of food are allowed. 

3. A careful physical examination of each animal should be made 
before or during the application of the test. 

4. During the period immediately before the injection of tuberculin 
each animal's temperature should be taken at least three times at not 
less than two-hour intervals. Care should be taken to let the ther- 
mometers remain inserted for a sufficient length of time to insure correct 
reading. Animals showing evidence of any acute disease or condition 
or showing pus formations should not be injected with tuberculin. Any 
animal showing pronounced abnormal preliminary temperatures likewise 
should not receive tuberculin treatment. Inquiry concerning the history 
of the herd should be made then, and it should be ascertained, if possible, 
whether any animal in the herd has ever given a positive reaction to 
tuberculin, the number of tuberculin tests applied to the herd previously 
and, also, whether any cattle in the herd have been treated at any time 
in any other manner with tuberculin. The information thus obtained 
should be used in determining the method to be employed in the tuberculin 
testing of the herd. 

5. The hypodermic syringes and needles should be disinfected before 
treating any herd with tuberculin. Before being used for the injection 
of each animal needles should be washed in a disinfectant solution. A 
5 per cent solution of carbolic acid is suitable for sterilizing the instru- 
ments. Open bottles of tuberculin should be protected from contam- 
ination. Thermometers should be sterilized before the temperature is 
taken, and should be dipped in a disinfectant solution before and after 
each reading. 



34 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

6. For cattle which are apparently healthy and which have not been 
injected with tuberculin within a period of at least 60 days, the dose of 
tuberculin prepared by the Bureau of Animal Industry is as follows : 

2 c. c. for calves ranging from six months to one year of age. 

4 c. c. for cattle more than one year old and up to maturity. 

Older animals, repeatedly tested animals, or those clinically suspicious 
may receive a larger dose. The dosage administered should be deter- 
mined mainly on the age of the animals and their history rather than upon 
the weight. 

7. The measurements of temperature following the injection of tuber- 
culin should commence at the eighth hour and be continued every two 
hours until the twentieth hour after injection when, if there is no 
tendency for the temperature to rise, the test may cease. Temperatures 
upon cattle which are showing a rising tendency following the injection 
of tuberculin should be measured more frequently. 

8. Suspected cattle should be submitted to a retest after the expira- 
tion of not less than 60 days. This class of cattle and those which show 
possible physical evidences of tuberculosis, emaciation, old age, or which 
have been tested repeatedly should receive double the dose of tuberculin 
indicated above. 

9. Experience has shown that animals, especially those of doubtful 
record, receiving large doses of tuberculin, may respond early to the 
test, and inspectors are advised, wherever practicable, to obtain tem- 
peratures at from the fourth to sixth hour following the use of large 
doses of tuberculin. 

10. A rise of two degrees Fahrenheit, or more, above the maximum 
temperature observed prior to the injection of tuberculin, or a tempera- 
ture above 103.8 degrees Fahrenheit, should be regarded as an indication 
of tuberculosis, provided the temperature reaction shows the charcteristic 
rainbow curve. 

11. Animals which after injection show a rise of temperature of two 
degrees Fahrenheit with a maximum of between 103 and 103.8 degrees 
Fahrenheit, as well as those which show a rise of less than two degrees 
Fahrenheit, with a maximum temperature of 103.8 degrees Fahrenheit, are 
regarded as suspicious. The presence of a general systemic reaction 
or a typical curve should be considered in determining the classification 
between suspects and reactors. 

The original and triplicate copies of the tuberculin-test chart and 
health certificate shall be sent to the live stock sanitary officer of the 
state from which the animals are to be shipped or moved and, upon 
approval by him, the original copy shall be forwarded to the bureau. 
The duplicate copy of the tuberculin-test chart and health certificate 
shall accompany the cattle to destination and the quadruplicate copy 
thereof shall be sent to the State Veterinarian or other proper official 
of the state of destination in ample time to reach him before the arrival 
of the cattle at destination. (Each state will be expected to provide 
the veterinarians with blank forms of tuberculin-test charts and health 
certificates other than those used by the bureau.) 



RELATING TO LIVE STOCK SANITATION 35 

DIRECTIONS FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE INTRADERMAL 

TEST 

1. Various sites may be selected for the intradermal injections. The 
sites most used are the subcaudal region and the skin of the lower eye- 
lid. The injections should be made with a hypodermic syringe provided 
with a needle about one-fourth inch in length and of small caliber. The 
syringe and needles used generally by the dental profession are satis- 
factory, but many operators prefer a moderately large syringe with 
adapters for the use of the dental needle. 

2. The injection should be made into the dermal tissue, care being 
taken to prevent the tuberculin from being discharged into the sub- 
cutaneous tissue, or superficially into the epidermis. An injection into 
a loose subcaudal fold is liable to result in the production of an infiltra- 
tion so slight as to prove of no diagnostic value; hence, a more preferable 
site is the undersurface of the tail, where the soft skin lies close to the 
bone. The swelling or edema here is more pronounced. In case the 
eye is selected the injection is made in the lower lid one-fourth inch below 
the border and about one-half inch from the corner of the eye. 

3. Swellings that appear within the first hour and disappear early 
are not diagnostic. Swellings present at the forty-eighth hour are gen- 
erally diagnostic; hence, observations should be made at the forty-eighth 
and seventy-second hours and, if possible, at a period between the nine- 
tieth and ninety-sixth hours, or longer. The later the appearance of 
the local reaction, the more positive the diagnosis. The local reaction is 
often confirmed by a thermal reaction, this being especially true in those 
cases in which tuberculin has not been administered recently by 
the ' subcutaneous method. These two methods may be employed 
simultaneously. 

DISINFECTION OF PREMISES 

In the eradication of tuberculosis or other communicable disease the 
thorough disinfection of premises is essential. This may be satisfactorily 
accomplished by carrying out the following directions: 

1. Sweep ceiling, sidewalls, stall partitions, floors, and other surfaces 
until free from cobwebs and dust. 

2. Remove all accumulations of filth by scraping, and if woodwork 
has become decayed, porous, or absorbent, it should be removed, burned, 
and replaced with new material. 

3. If floor is of earth, remove four inches from the surface, and in 
places where it shows staining with urine a sufficient depth should be 
replaced to expose fresh earth. All earth removed should be replaced with 
earth from an uncontaminated source, or a new floor of concrete may be 
laid, which is very durable and easily cleaned. 

4. All refuse and material from stable and barnyard should be re- 
moved to a place not accessible to cattle or hogs. The manure should be 
spread on fields and turned under, while the wood should be burned. 



36 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

5. The entire interior of the stable, especially the feeding troughs 
and drains, should be saturated with a disinfectant, as liquor cresolis com- 
positus (U. S. P.), or carbolic acid, six ounces to every gallon of water 
in each case. After this has dried, the stalls, walls, and ceilings may be 
covered with whitewash (lime wash), to each gallon of which should be 
added four ounces of chloride of lime. 

The best method of applying the disinfectant and the lime wash is by 
means of a strong spray pump, such as those used by orchardists. 

This method is efficient in disinfection against most of the contagious 
and infectious diseases of animals, and should be applied immediately fol- 
lowing any outbreak, and, as a matter of precaution, it may be used once 
or twice yearly. 

6. It is important that arrangements be made to admit a plentiful 
supply of sunlight and fresh air by providing an ample number of win- 
dows, thereby eliminating dampness, stiffness, bad odors, and other 
insanitary conditions. Good drainage is also very necessary. 

If the use of liquor cresolis compositus, carbolic acid, or other coal-tar 
products is inadmissible because of the readiness with which their odor 
is imparted to milk and other dairy products, bichloride of mercury may 
be used in the proportion of 1 to 800, or one pound of bichloride to 100 
gallons of water. However, all portions of the stable soiled with manure 
should first be thoroughly scraped and cleaned, as the albumin contained 
in manure would otherwise greatly diminish the disinfecting power of the 
bichloride. Disinfection with this material should be supervised by a vet- 
erinarian or other person trained in the handling of poisonous drugs and 
chemicals, as the bichloride of mercury is a powerful corrosive poison. 
The mangers and feed boxes, after drying, following spraying with this 
material, should be washed out with hot water, as cattle are especially 
susceptible to mercurial poisoning. The bichloride solution should be 
applied by means of a spray pump, as recommended for the liquor 
cresolis compositus. 

REGULATION No. 17. 

Rule B. Milk secreted from known tuberculous animals shall, in no 
case, be allowed to be used as whole milk, skim milk, butter milk, cream 
or whey unless the same has been thoroughly pasteurized or sterilized 
and then can not be sold or used unless labeled as sterilized or pasteurized 
milk from cows reacting to the tuberculin test. 

REGULATION No. 18. 

REGULATIONS GOVERNING RABIES 

Rule A. Animals suspected of being infected with rabies should be 
reported to the State, Assistant State, County Veterinarian or Secretary 
of the State Board of Health. 

Rule B. When rabies is positively diagnosed the following rules 
shall be carried out. 

Rule 1. Licensing Dogs — Every person owning a dog in a city or 
incorporated town must apply to the clerk of said city or town for a 



RELATING TO LIVE STOCK SANITATION 37 

license tag: which will be issued upon payment of $ This tag 

must be attached to the dog's collar. Any dog running at large without 
a license tag attached to its collar will be immediately impounded in the 
public pound by any peace officer or pound master. 

Rule 2. Muzzling — When an outbreak of rabies occurs or is imminent, 
no person shall cause or permit any dog owned or kept by him to run at 
large on any highway or road, or on any premises not inclosed by a 
dog-tight fence, or on the public domain, unless such dog be securely 
muzzled so as to effectually prevent its biting any person or animal. 
Nothing herein contained shall be held to require the muzzling of any dog 
if properly confined on private premises, or while on any highway or 
road, or any premises not his own or under his supervision, or on the 
public domain, if such dog be led by chain or leash in such manner as 
shall prevent such dog from biting any person or animal. But nothing 
herein shall be construed to permit any bitch, when in heat, whether 
muzzled or otherwise, to run at large, or prevent an unmuzzled dog from 
actually being used in the range herding or handling of live stock. 
It shall be the duty of every officer to report to the sheriff or peace 
officer any dog which is found in his district contrary to the provision of 
this section. 

Rule 3. Killing of Rabid Dogs or Any Dogs Having Been Bitten by 
Them — Any dog afflicted with rabies, or any dog bitten by a dog, or 
rabid animal suffering from rabies, is hereby declared to be a nuisance 
and such dog must be slain by the owner, or any officer, or his deputy. 
Excepting that a permit may be issued to an owner exempting from 
slaughter any dog of great value that has been bitten by a supposedly 
rabid animal, provided owner will agree to securely restrain or muzzle 
said dog for a period of three months, or will submit said animal to 
the Pasteur treatment. It shall be the duty of any person owning or 
exercising ownership or agency over any dog that has been bitten by a 
rabid dog or animal to surrender such dog to the sheriff, or his deputy, 
or any peace officer, unless above exceptions have been complied with. 

Rule 4. Dogs Under Suspicion of Being Afflicted With Rabies — ■ 
Whenever any dog shall have bitten any person and is under suspicion 
of being rabid, it shall be the duty of the owner, or any officer, to take 
into his custody and keep such dog under restraint for a period not less 
than ten days, during which period a veterinarian, or any other person 
competent to decide, shall determine whether such dog is diseased, and, 
if so, whether in his judgment it should be killed. It shall be the duty of 
the peace officer, or any other qualified officer, to kill the diseased dog, 
so condemned, by shooting the same through the heart. 

Rule 5. The Shipping of Dog's Head — The head of a dog which 
has been killed under the provisions of section 4 should be severed from 
the body, packed in sawdust and ice and sent prepaid to the State 
Board of Health, Selling Building, Portland, to have the brain examined 
for the presence of Negri bodies, the finding of which denotes that the 
animal was rabid. 

Rule 6. Release of Dog Impounded for Observation — Any dog kept 
under observation as provided for in section 4, if declared free from 



38 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

rabic symptoms after two weeks, should not be allowed to run at large 
for a period of not less than three months unless muzzled, or led by a 
chain or leash, as provided for in section 2. 

Rule 7. Persons Taking Anti-Rabic Treatment — If the dog's head 
received by the Board of Health gives evidence that the dog was affected 
by rabies, the persons bitten by such animal should immediately undergo 
anti-rabic treatment. 

"Caution should be exercised not to kill a dog too soon before the 
symptoms of rabies appear because it will then be impossible to ascer- 
tain by examination of the dog's brain whether rabies be present or not 
and an uncertainty will exist as to whether the person bitten should 
undergo anti-rabic treatment. If the dog is unquestionably rabid it 
should immediately be shot and the head sent to the Board of Health 
for examination. In shooting the dog care should be taken to aim the 
bullet directly through the heart so as not to destroy the brain which 
is to be examined." 

Section 8. County-Wide Epidemics. — If in the judgement of the State 
Veterinarian and State Health Officer an epidemic exists or threatens 
an entire county, the said State Veterinarian and State Health Officer 
should instruct the judge of said county to enforce these orders through- 
out the entire county. 

Section 9. All dogs owned or held within any county, in all zones 
or districts within fifteen miles of where rabies has been diagnosed or 
a rabid dog or animal has been present, shall be restrained, from 
running at large for a period of ninety days after the last reported 
outbreak of rabies or unless otherwise ordered, and shall be either held 
by a chain or muzzled or restrained in such manner as to prevent such 
dog or dogs from biting anyone, or further conveying the infection. 
This order is not to apply to dogs that are being actually used in the 
range, handling and herding of livestock, but owners making such 
use of dogs are hereby ordered to muzzle and restrain all such dogs 
during their non-use during the day and at all times during the night. 

REGULATION No. 19 

RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING HOG CHOLERA AND 

SWINE PLAGUE 

Rule A. When an outbreak of hog cholera or swine plague appears, 
the owner must notify the State, Assistant State or County Veterinarian. 
The said officer shall quarantine all portions of his premises upon which 
hog cholera exists. 

Rule B. All persons, excepting owner, duly authorized attendants, 
medical advisors or others are forbidden to any enclosures where dis- 
eased hogs are kept. 

Rule C. Hogs must not be moved from any quarantined premises 
except by permission' of State, Assistant State or County Veterinarians. 

Rule D. Hogs shipped from one section of the state of Oregon where 
hog cholera is known to exist unless intended for immediate slaughter 
shall be treated the same as hogs imported into the state. 



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Rule E. It shall be the duty of the owner, or any other person hav- 
ing in charge any swine that have died of any disease, immediately upon 
the fact of such death coming to his knowledge to burn the same to 
ashes and clean and thoroughly disinfect his pens, yards and houses. 

Rule F. No person shall feed any hotel, restaurant or eating house 
swill or refuse or packing house offal to swine unless and until the same 
has been thoroughly cooked and rendered free from the possibility of car- 
rying hog cholera or other infection that might be transmitted through 
a cholera infected ham bone or bacon rine. 

Rule G. All dogs in a district where hog cholera is known to exist 
must be restrained from running at large and must be confined to own- 
ers' premises. 

Rule H. All railroad cars, steamboats, and other means of trans- 
porting hogs must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected before hogs 
shall be allowed shipment if for purposes other than immediate slaughter. 

Rule I. All hogs allowed to come in contact with any public corral, 
yard, chute or undisinfected railroad car shall be considered as exposed 
to hog cholera and shall not be sold for feeding or breeding purposes, 
unless immunized. 

Rule J. All hogs immunized with the so-called serum-simultaneous 
or double vaccination shall be held under a modified quarantine for a 
period of one month after vaccination. Veterinarians must have specific 
authorization from the Board to be eligible to give the double vaccination 
or in any way handle the virus of hog cholera. 

Note. — The Live Stock Sanitary Board will supply hog cholera serum to 
official veterinarians for official use within the State of Oregon at a cost of 1 
cent' per Cc. to the owner of exposed and infected hogs. The serum will be 
administered free by the official veterinarians. 

Cleaning and Disinfection 

It is a recognized fact that the average stockman and farmer does not 
realize the importance of thoroughly disinfecting his premises following an 
outbreak of contagious disease. There is a lack of knowledge on his 
part concerning practical and economical methods of proceeding with the 
work of disinfection. Moreover the reappearance of a contagious disease 
on premises from which it was believed to have been eradicated, may fre- 
quently be traced to careless or imperfect work in connection with the 
cleaning and disinfection of the place. The work of disinfection is based 
upon recognition of the presence of disease germs, and disinfection means 
the act of destroying the cause of infection. In other words, disin- 
fection is the removal of the cause and it will be clear to any practical man 
thac in dealing with disease, any effort which stops short of a complete 
removal of the cause is most unwise and unprofitable. 

To those not accustomed to the work, disinfection may seem a most 
complicated process. Any approved method, however, is comparatively 
simple when carried out carefully. Although like many other procedures, 
it is one in which attention to details accounts for much. 

It is important to bear in mind that the causative factors of the dis- 
ease are extremely small and may remain for an indefinite time in dust, 



40 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

cracks or crevices of buildings, so that efforts aiming to the eradication 
of disease from contaminated premises must be thorough in order to be 
effective. 

Sunlight is Nature's great disinfectant. Hence the importance of well- 
lighted stables; but for practical purposes we are depending upon certain 
"drugs" which have power to destroy the organisms of disease. It is not 
necessary to discuss the exact manner in which these drugs act upon the 
bacteria. It is sufficient to know that they possess the power of destroy- 
ing bacterial life with the same certainty that poisonous drugs destroy 
animal life. They have only to be brought into contact with the bacteria 
in order to destroy them. 

In practical work of disinfection, there are three essentials: 

1. A preparation of the building and premises that will facilitate the 
most through contact with bacteria. 

2. A disinfectant which upon contact can be depended upon to destroy 
such organisms. 

3. A method of applying the disinfectants that will assure the most 
thorough contact with the bacteria or virus. 

After the hog cholera has abated on your farm, the entire premises 
should be disinfected. The tendency of farmers is to disinfect premises in 
"piecemeal." This is a mistake, for all work should be done at one time, 
the entire job finished as soon as possible to prevent reinfecting the areas 
you have already disinfected. It is advisable to begin in the outlying 
pasture lots and gradually work toward the house and barn lots. Begin- 
ning with the pasture lots to which the sick hogs have had access, clean all 
accumulation of leaves along the fences, where hogs have used such as 
beds. Loose fence boards and rails are best gathered and burned. Fences 
should be disinfected and whitewashed. Anything under which the infec- 
tion could harbor should be removed. All shades and sheds in these pas- 
ture lots should receive the same thorough cleaning and disinfection. All 
feed and water troughs, if old, should be burned; if new material, they 
should be thoroughly scrubbed with lye and hot water and then disinfected. 
All cobs and litter should be removed and taken to a field not accessible to 
livestock and plowed under. Before removing hogs to new feed lots, dip 
them in disinfectant solution, two per cent liquor cresolis compositus. 
It is best to change feed lots and plow the old one under; best to use water 
fountain in supplying drinking water for your hogs. Fill all wallow holes, 
or fence them off. Hogs should never be allowed access to straw stacks. 

Wagons, manure spreaders, etc., should be cleaned and disinfected; 
some places may require scraping; haul all manure and litter to field and 
plow under. Where wood has become old and porous, best to remove same 
and replace with new. Spaces under buildings where hogs have had 
access should be cleaned and disinfected and shut off. Walks leading to 
house should be disinfected; lime scattered in yards. 

The best way to apply the disinfectant is with a strong spray pump 
equipped with about fifteen feet of hose to which may be attached a pipe 
five feet long of the same caliber. This will insure entire satisfaction. 
With a spray nozzle at the end of the pipe it will be possible to cover con- 
siderable area; also have sufficient force to drive the solution into cracks 
and crevices. 

When the job is completed the clothes worn by the men doing the 
work should be boiled; shoes washed and disinfected. 



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Disposal of Carcasses 

Carcasses of all animals, regardless of their class, should be disposed 
of by burning'. Particularly is this true of hogs dead of cholera for even 
though deeply buried, at times of long continued rains water rising to the 
surface may carry the virus with it and thus expose other animals. But 
the tendency is to bury in shallow holes the carcasses of hogs or other 
animals and very frequently they are later dug up by dogs, coyotes, or 
wolves and the bones or parts carried to the hog pens on the farm or even 
to other farms. Again when the carcass is exposed it attracts buzzards, 
crows and vultures to the farm and they may come from some infected 
carcass, bringing the virus in their crops, and there, perhaps perched in a 
tree in the hogpens, disgorge, and thus convey the virus to the hogs 
therein. Too little importance is placed upon the necessity of dispos- 
ing once and for all of carcasses. The most economical way in the long 
run is to burn all carcasses. Particularly with hogs this can be done 
easily. When the sides of the hog have been slashed freely so that fire 
can get at the accumulated fats, they catch fire and supply practically 
all the fuel needed to burn the carcass, once a good fire has been started. 
A convenient method of burning the carcass is to dig a trench or prefer- 
ably two trenches across each other at right angles, placing over these 
trenches steel bars, or oftentimes an iron wheel may be used, placing the 
carcass across these bars or wheel and building a fire underneath. 

Disinfectants 

The following agents are recommended for use as disinfectants, the 
United States Department of Agriculture preferring the cresylic acid com- 
pound to those following: 

Cresylic acid compound; five pounds laundry soap in water (warm) 
to dissolve; one gallon cresylic acid water Q. S. fifty gallons. 

Can be bought from Pittman-Moore Co. 

Use carbolic acid and other coal tars, one pint in two gallons water. 

Use chloride lime one pound in two gallons water. 

One quart freshly slacked lime in nineteen quarts water. 

Slaked or chloride lime spread on floor. 

There are here enumerated three pumps which have proven very sat- 
isfactory in' disinfecting premises. There may be others quite as good. 

Binks Pump — Star Bros. Co., Chicago. 

Biggs Pump — Humphrey Mfg. Co., Mansfield, Ohio. 

F. E. Meyers & Co., Ashland, Ohio. 

REGULATION No. 20. 

RULES AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING GLANDERS 
AND FARCY 

Rule A. In all cases of suspected glanders or farcy, the owner or 
party in charge shall immediately isolate the suspected animals, then 
notify the State, Assistant State or County Veterinarian, describing 
symptoms exhibited by suspected animals and advising of the present 
location of the isolated animals. 



42 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

Rule B. When the State Veterinarian or regularly appointed Assistant 
or County Veterinarian determines by an unmistakable examination 
that an animal is affected with the dangerous communicable disease 
known as glanders, or farcy, such animal shall be destroyed and the 
carcass shall be immediately destroyed by burning or burying and the 
following notice shall be served on the owner or agent in charge of the 
animals. 

Notice of Quarantine and to Destroy Diseased Animals 

Rule C. When animals give a suspicious reaction to the several tests 
to determine the presence of occult glanders and present no clinical evi- 
dence of the disease, the same may be marked or branded and placed 
under a quarantine awaiting a further test or release. 

Rule D. All animals reacting to the mallein, complement fixation or 
other officially approved test for glanders when accompanied by any 
unmistakable clinical symptoms of glanders or farcy shall be destroyed. 

1. Animals giving an atypical reaction, and those recording a maxi- 
mum temperature of 103 degrees Fahrenheit, should be retested after the 
expiration of not less than 15 days. 

2. In case of controversy, or where atypical reactions are obtained, 
blood may be drawn from the animals in question and shipped to the 
Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, D. C, care of the 
Pathological Division, for the serum diagnosis of glanders. 

3. The blood is taken from the jugular vein after a small area over 
the jugular has been clipped and disinfected. The vein is dilated by 
pressure on the lower part of the neck and the blood drawn from the ani- 
mal into a sterile tube or bottle by the insertion of a proper-sized trocar. 
One or two ounces of blood is a sufficient quantity for testing purposes. 

4. Every bottle should be labeled and the number of the horse cor- 
responding with the record number should be designated on the label. 
The vials may then be packed very carefully into separate containers or 
collectively in a box for shipment. 

5. It is not absolutely essential to have clear serum, as in repeated 
tests it was found that blood gave satisfactory reactions although the 
serum was badly discolored as a result of disintegration of the blood 
corpuscles. 

6. In cases where the mallein test has been used, the blood of sus- 
pected horses to be examined for glanders should not be taken until from 
seven to ten days have elapsed after the last mallein test. 

Disinfection of Premises 
See Regulation No. 16, disinfection of tuberculosis infected premises. 



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REGULATION No. 21. 

CONTAGIOUS OR INFECTIOUS ABORTION OF CATTLE 

Rule A. Animals infected with infectious abortion shall not be sold 
for purposes other than slaughter until they have been proven free from 
active infection. 

Treatment of Animals 

The following- is an outline of a method of treating the animals in an 
infected herd: 

Disinfecting the Bull — To prevent the bull from carrying the infection 
from a diseased cow to a healthy one, first clip the tuft of long hair from 
the opening of the sheath, then disinfect the penis and sheath with a 
solution of one-half per cent of cresol compound, lysol, or one per cent 
carbolic acid, or one to one thousand potassium permanganate in warm 
water. Two tablespoonfuls of fluid equal one ounce, therefore, this 
amount of antiseptic added to six pints of boiled water will make 
approximately a one per cent solution. 

The only apparatus necessary is a soft rubber tube five-eighths 
inch in diameter and five feet long, with a large funnel attached 
to one end; or an ordinary fountain syringe and tube would serve the 
purpose. The tube should be inserted into the sheath and the foreskin 
held with the hand to prevent the immediate escape of the fluid. Elevate 
the funnel as high as possible and pour in the fluid until the preputial 
sac is filled. In addition to this, the hair of the belly and inner sides of 
the thigh should be sponged with an antiseptic of twice the strength of 
the irrigating solution. This disinfection should invariably precede and 
follow every service. 

Treatment of the Cow. Isolate the Aborting Cow. The germs of the 
disease are contained in the discharge, and in the dead fetus and its mem- 
branes. Gather these up and bury or burn them and disinfect the stall 
thoroughly. Don't neglect this cow. By thorough' treatment you can 
restore her to usefulness and prevent sterility. 

More than half the cows abort but once, so don't sell your cow because 
she aborts. 

The uterus should be irrigated daily with one of the antiseptics men- 
tioned for the bull, using the same apparatus, and irrigation should be 
continued until discharge ceases. If large numbers of animals are to be 
treated, a bucket can be fitted with a small faucet to which the tube is 
attached. This can be suspended from the ceiling or from the rail of the 
litter carrier. After treating the animal, disinfect hand and apparatus 
thoroughly with the solution before treating another animal. Complete 
cleanliness is important. Lugol's solution, in a strength of two per cent, 
has been found to be desirable as a uterine dousche. This solution is not 
allowed to remain in the uterus, but is flushed out with salt solution. 

Lugol's solution of iodin is compounded as follows: Iodin five parts, 
potassium iodid ten parts, and boiled water to make 100 parts. Two parts 
of this compound in 100 parts of boiled water make a two per cent solu- 
tion suitable for uterine irrigation. Lugol's solution can be purchased 
from your druggist. 



44 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

A one per cent solution of common salt in boiled water at body tem- 
perature makes a suitable irrigating fluid. A heaping tablespoonful of 
dry salt weighs approximately one ounce, and this amount in one gallon 
of boiled water gives the proper strength. 

The action of the antiseptic should be noted, and if it causes straining 
or irritates the tender membranes of the genital organs, a weaker and 
less irritating solution should be used. In addition, the external genitals, 
root of tail, escutcheon, etc., should be sponged daily with a solution 
twice as strong as that used for irrigation, and this latter treatment 
should be given the nonaborters as well. Should the preliminary symp- 
toms of abortion be detected, the animal should be removed from the herd 
and treated as above. 

After treating an affected animal, be careful to disinfect the hands 
before going near apparently healthy animals. 

Retention of Afterbirth. The retention of the afterbirth is a serious 
matter. It should not be forcibly removed, as the lining membranes of the 
uterus would be torn and a point of entry thus provided for the germs 
which cause blood poisoning. The uterus is very susceptible to this form 
of infection at such times, and injury should be carefully avoided. Clumsy 
and forceful manipulation of the parts may cause infection and death 
of the animal. The best practice is to flush the uterus twice daily with 
a mild antiseptic to prevent the accumulation and absorption of poisonous 
products and allow the membranes to come away of themselves. In all 
these manipulations, hands and utensils should first be thoroughly dis- 
infected. In fact, so much special knowledge and operative skill is 
required that a competent veterinarian should be employed to instruct 
the owner before these operations are undertaken. 

Breeding After Abortion 

After abortion, breeding should not again be attempted within two 
months, or until the discharge shall have ceased, as the uterus would 
not be normal and the animal either would not conceive or would abort 
again in a short time. 

Sterility, weakling calves, retained afterbirth, white scours, and calf 
pneumonia frequently accompany abortion. The measures recommended 
will also assist in overcoming these complications. 

Do not rely on drugs or proprietary medicines administered by the 
mouth. No effective remedies of this kind have yet been found. 

Serums and vaccines are still in the experimental stage. Their effec- 
tiveness, however, has not yet been conclusively demonstrated. The 
department therefore advises farmers to rely for the present on the pro- 
tective measures and sanitary treatment outlined above. 

Let us repeat. Give this matter your earnest attention. Join your 
neighbors, your state and the country in fighting this plague, and we will 
soon have it under control. 



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REGULATION No. 22. 

CONCERNING ANTHRAX 

Regulation 1. Anthrax carcasses shall not be skinned, but shall be 
burned to ashes, or buried at least four feet deep, covered with quick 
lime, and if possible, without moving or handling. The place or stall 
where a dead anthrax carcass is found or where an anthrax patient has 
been kept shall be cleaned and disinfected. The litter and manure from 
such a place shall be burned and the place shall be disinfected as directed 
for disinfecting hog cholera infection in regulation No. 19. 

Regulation 2. Anthrax carcasses shall not be dragged over public 
roads, commons or open places. The carcasses may be disinfected by 
thorough sprinkling with a five per cent carbolic acid solution, or a 
solution of chloride of lime, or solution of coal tar creosote; then rolled 
on to skids or a sled or other vehicle and taken to a suitable place for 
burning. 

Regulation 3. In no case shall anthrax vaccine be used where anthrax 
does not exist. Anthrax vaccine shall not be used until positive micro- 
scopic, cultural, and inocluation tests have been made by a federal, state 
or an officially recognized expert or authority. 

Lifting the Quarantine 

Anthrax can be considered eradicated and enforced precaution dis- 
pensed with when : 

(a) All anthrax sick and suspected animals are removed or killed, or 

(b) If within two weeks after the outbreak of anthrax no suspected 
or new cases of anthrax have occurred in the herd, and 

(c) When the disinfection has been carried out as directed by the 
official veterinarian. 

REGULATION No. 23. 
CONCERNING PUBLIC STOCK YARDS AND STABLES 

1. All public stock yards and stables operated for the sale, assem- 
bling, feeding and distributing of horses and mules in Oregon shall be 
maintained under sanitary conditions at the expense of the owner, as 
provided in the following: 

2. All portions of public stock yards and stables used for the handling 
of horses and mules, as set forth in section 1, shall be subjected to 
thorough cleaning and disinfection at least once every week, or oftener 
if considered necessary by the federal or authorized state inspectors. The. 
cleaning and disinfection to be conducted as follows : 

(a) The original cleaning shall consist in the removal of all manure 
and litter. 

(b) All mangers, watering troughs, racks, etc., shall be properly 
cleaned before each disinfection. 

(c) After the original cleaning and disinfection, the manure in horse 
and mule pens need not be removed more often than once a month, pro- 
vided there is applied once a day a new or fresh layer of straw, shavings 
sawdust or other acceptable fresh bedding. 



46 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATION S 

(d) The disinfection shall include watering troughs, mangers, buckets, 
halters, floors, partitions, walls, etc. 

(e) The disinfection shall consist in the application of three per cent 
solution liquor cresolis compound or any other recognized standard 
disinfectant. 

3. All horses and mules showing symptoms of infectious pneumonia, 
influenza, strangles, or any other infectious or contagious disease shall 
immediately be isolated in places or in quarters not occupied by healthy 
horses and mules. 

REGULATION No. 24 

The charges made by veterinarians appointed under section 3, of 
chapter 413, of the laws of the legislative assembly of 1919, to examine 
animals enumerated in the law, shall be and are hereby fixed at the 
following : 

The maximum amounts of $5 for the subcutaneous tuberculin testing 
of one animal, $6 for two animals, $8 for three animals, and $10 for 
four to seven animals, $15 for from eight to ten animals, $1 additional 
for all animals over ten, and fifty cents per head for all animals over 
twenty. Regular mileage may be charged for distances after and exceed- 
ing three miles. Where travel is made by train or the veterinarian 
so far removed from his office as to prevent covering office work, the 
option of charging per day to be allowed, the rate to be charged 
amounting to $5 for one to three animals and a maximum of $10 per day, 
together with actual expenses. 

Fees for administering the ophthalmic mallein test or the intradermal 
Tnallein or tuberculin test to be a maximum fee of $3 for one animal, $4 
for two, $5 for from three to four animals, $1 additional for all animals 
exceeding four to carload lots which shall not be charged for to exceed $20 
per carload. Same conditions as to inspections administered at a distance 
to obtain as in the administration of the tuberculin test. 

The inspection and serum immunization of hogs may be charged for 
at the rate of $1 for a single inspection, and regular call fees plus cost 
of serum where immunization is given. Where a considerable number of 
hogs are immunized, one-half cent per cubic centimeter for the adminis- 
tration of serum may be charged in addition. 

The inspection of sheep is covered by sheep laws of the state, which 
prevent an amount in excess of $5 per day and expenses to be charged 
for this work. Inspection in other than carload lots to be the same as 
physical inspections. 

Where physical inspection only is required, the maximum fee is hereby 
fixed at $1 per head and call fees and mileage, after a distance of 
three miles, and in no instance to exceed $5 per carload lot or part of 
a carload lot. No minimum fees are hereby established. 



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47 



Part II 

STATE SHEEP LAWS OF OREGON TOGETHER WITH 
RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE BOARD 

Section 1. Amended — Live Stock Sanitary Board ex officio Board of 
Sheep Commissioners. 

Section 2. Powers and Duties of Board — May Subpoena Witnesses — 
False Swearing Perjury. 

Section 3. Amended — Live Stock Sanitary Board Now Acting. 

Section 4. Amended — State Veterinarian ex officio State Sheep 
Inspector. 

Section 5. Board to Control Inspector. 

Section 6. Deputy Sheep Inspector's Appointment. 

Section 7. Duties and Powers of Sheep Inspector and Deputies. 

Section 8. State Inspector to Appoint Deputies on Request — Board May 
Assign Them to Duty. 

Section 9. Governor May Prohibit Importation of Sheep From Danger- 
ous Locality — Penalty for Violation. 

Section 10. Governor May Request Cooperation of United States Bureau 
of Animal Industry. 

Section 11. Dipping of Sheep, When Required. 

Section 12. Inspection and Quarantine — -Who to Pay Expenses. 

Section 13. Treatment of Infected Sheep — Damages — Penalty for Viola- 
tion. 

Section 14. Permit to Move Infected Sheep — Method Prescribed — Penalty. 

Section 15. Inspection of Sheep Brought Into State — Penalty for Viola- 
tion. 

Section 16. Seizure of Animals Whose Owner Refuses to Comply with 
Act — Proceedings. 

Section 17. Penalties for Bringing Diseased Sheep Into or Transporting 
Them in State — Disinfection. 

Section 18. Disposing of Diseased Sheep — Penalties. 

Section 19. Officers to Designate Boundaries of Quarantine — Penalty 
for Transgressing. 

Section 20. Owners of Diseased Sheep to Report — Penalty for Failure or 
for Obstructing Inspector. 

Section 21. Expenses of Inspection and Treatment a Lien — How 
Enforced. 

Section 22. Fees of Deputy Inspectors — Record of Inspections. 

Section 23. Reports by Inspector and Board to Governor and County- 
Commissioners. 

Section 24. Case Enjoined Upon Officers — Penalty for Wilful Wrong By. 

Section 25. Liability of Owner of Infected Sheep for Damages Through 
Mingling With Healthy. 

Section 26. Disposal of Fines — District Attorneys to Prosecute Offenses 
and Foreclose Liens. 

Section 27. Books and Stationery to Be Furnished Inspectors, Board, Etc. 

Section 28. Persons Injured May Sue Upon Bonds. 

Section 29. Funds Now Available from Appropriation for Live Stock 
Sanitary Expenses. 



48 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

SHEEP INSPECTION LAW 

Section 1. The Governor is hereby authorized and directed to 
appoint, with the advice and consent of the senate, a Board of Sheep 
Commissioners, to consist of three members, each of whom shall be a 
sheep owner within the state and familiar with the sheep business, and 
who shall be a resident during his term of office of the district from 
which he is appointed. One member thereof shall be appointed from each 
of the three districts hereinafter designated, and the members of said 
Board shall, before entering upon their duties, take the oath of office 
prescribed for state officials under the constitution, and shall file the 
same with the Secretary of State. One member of said Board shall be 
appointed for a term of three years, one for a term of two years, and 
one for a term of one year, and thereafter any appointment made to 
said Board shall be for the term of three years, and each member shall 
hold office until his successor has been appointed and qualified. The 
Board shall elect their president and a secretary from their number, 
and fix his compensation, which shall not exceed $600 per annum. The 
duties of the secretary shall be such, and he shall maintain his office at 
such convenient place, as the Board may prescribe. In the case of vacancy 
occuring in said Board, from death or otherwise, the Governor shall 
immediately fill such vacancy by an appointment of some person resident 
within the district where such vacancy exists. 

Section 2. The Board shall have power to make rules and regulations 
for its own government and shall convene in regular session at least 
once a year at the office of the secretary, and as much oftener as their 
duties may require. Its members shall receive no compensation for 
their services, but shall be allowed their actual hotel and traveling 
expenses incurred while engaged in the actual performance of their 
duties, the aggregate amount thereof to exceed in no event the sum of 
$1,500 per annum. It shall be the duty of said Board to exercise general 
supervision over, and, so far as may be, to protect the sheep interests 
of the state from losses from theft and disease, and to devise and recom- 
mend from time to time such legislation as in their judgment will foster 
and promote the sheep industry, and they shall also formulate and issue 
regulations governing the control and eradication of disease among 
sheep within the state not in conflict with the provision** of this act. 
Whenever it shall be necessary to examine witnesses in the performance 
of their duties, the Board shall have authority to subpoena witnesses, 
swear and examine them, and to enforce their attendance at the time 
and place designated in such subpoena, and any witness who testifies 
falsely before such Board upon any material matter shall be deemed 
guilty of perjury and punished accordingly. 

Section 3. For the purposes of this act, and to create districts from 
which the members of said Board shall be appointed, the state is hereby 
divided into three districts, as follows: District No. 1 shall include the 
counties of Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook, Washington, Multnomah, Clack- 
amas, Yamhill, Polk, Marion, Linn, Benton, Lincoln, Lane, Coos, Douglas, 
Curry, Josephine and Jackson. District No. 2 shall include the counties 
of Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake and Klamath. Dis- 
trict No. 3 shall include the counties of Morrow, Umatilla, Union, 



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Wallowa, Grant, Baker, Harney and Malheur; and from each of these 
districts one of said commissioners shall be appointed. 

Section 4. The Board is authorized to appoint a State Sheep Inspec- 
tor, who shall hold his office for a term of two years, unless sooner 
removed for incompetency or neglect of duty. Such appointee shall 
be graduate of some recognized college of veterinary surgery of good 
standing and repute, and he shall receive as full compensaion for his 
services an annual salary of $2,000, to be paid in the same manner and 
at the same times as the salaries of other state officers are paid. He 
shall be under the control and direction of said Board and may be removed 
by them for cause. He must, before entering upon the duties of his 
office, take the usual official oath and execute a bond to the state in 
the sum of $5,000, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties 
of his office, to be approved by the Governor and filed by the Secretary 
of State. In addition to said salary he shall be allowed his actual and 
necessary hotel and traveling expenses when absent from home, the same 
to be audited by said Board and paid upon their certificate in the same 
manner and at the same time as his salary is paid; such expenses, 
however, shall not exceed the sum of $1,500 per annum. The State 
Sheep Inspector shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office, 
to the exclusion of private business. His official headquarters shall be 
at the office of the secretary of the said commission. 

Section 5. The Board of Sheep Commissioners shall have general 
control of the State Sheep Inspector in this act provided for, and shall 
make regulations governing his procedure and that of his deputies, 
and all bills for expenses incurred under the provisions of this act, 
except as to deputy inspectors, shall be audited and certified by said 
Board to the Secretary of State, and when allowed by them shall be 
paid by warrants drawn on the general fund in the state treasury, and 
it shall be the duty of the Board to make an annual report in writing 
to the Governor on or before the first day of December in each year, 
which report shall set forth the transactions of the Board and the oper- 
tions of the inspector and his deputies for the year then ending, the 
condition of the sheep industry in the state, and such other matters 
as may be in the judgment of the board valuable to the public. 

Section 6. Such State Sheep Inspector shall have the power and it 
shall be his duty to appoint in each county of the state where the sheep 
industry obtains one or more deputy inspectors, one of whom shall be 
a resident of the county from which he is appointed. Such deputies 
shall be subject to removal at any time by the State Sheep Inspector. 
They shall be practical sheep men, who, before entering upon the per- 
formance of their duties, shall take the oath of office required of county 
officials, and shall give bond to the state of Oregon in the penal sum 
of $1,000, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of such 
deputy, such bond to be approved by the State Sheep Inspector and 
placed on file in his office, and it shall be the duty of the official to 
have general supervision over all his deputies, and to counsel and advise 
with them and to assist in adjusting any differences which may arise 
in the enforcement of the provisions of this act between such deputies 
and the owners of sheep. 



50 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

Section 7. It shall be the duty of the State Sheep Inspector, and of 
his deputies under his direction, to investigate all cases of contagious 
and infectious disease among sheep within the state which may come to 
his or their knowledge, and to make official visits of inspection to any 
locality where such disease exists, or where they have information or 
reason to believe such disease exists, and to inspect or cause to be 
inspected any sheep within the state, and all sheep brought into this 
state in any manner from any other state, territory or foreign country, 
and particularly from any other locality included or defined in any 
proclamation issued by the Governor establishing a quarantine as in this 
act provided, and he or they shall have authority to order a quarantine 
of any infected premises, and in case such disease shall become prevalent 
in any locality within the state, the Board of Sheep Commissioners may 
issue, upon the recommendation of the State Sheep Inspector, a procla- 
mation forbidding any sheep being transferred from said locality without 
a certificate from said inspector or one of his deputies showing such 
animal to be in good health, and the expenses of herding, feeding and 
caring for all sheep quarantined under these provisions shall be paid by 
the owner thereof. The State Sheep Inspector and his deputies , shall 
have the power to administer oaths and to examine witnesses so far 
as the same may be necessary in the proper performance of their duties, 
and any person who shall, contrary to said oath, state as true any 
material thing which he knows to be false, shall be deemed guilty of 
perjury and shall be punished accordingly. 

Section 8. It shall be the duty of the State Sheep Inspector upon 
the request of any recognized woolgrowers' association within the state, 
or upon the request of any five sheep owners in any county thereof, or 
upon the recommendation of the Board of Sheep Commissioners, to 
appoint a deputy inspector for any county or any locality therein, and 
any deputy so appointed need not be a resident of the county or locality 
for which he is appointed. The Board of Sheep Commissioners when 
in session or the State Sheep Inspector at any time, may direct a 
deputy inspector of one county to go to another county and there perform 
the duties of deputy sheep inspector or to assist the deputy inspector of 
such county, and he shall perform such duties there and during such 
period as may be designated in the order received. The authority of 
any deputies under this act shall extend to all parts of the state alike. 

Section 9. Whenever the Governor of the state has reason to believe 
that scab or other contagious or infectious disease of sheep has become 
prevalent in any locality or localities of any other state or territory, or 
that conditions exist that render sheep from such localities likely to 
convey disease, or whenever the State Sheep Inspector shall certify in 
writing to the Governor that conditions exist in certain localities in any 
other state or territory, which may render any of the sheep coming 
therefrom likely to convey disease, the Governor shall forthwith by 
proclamation designate and declare such locality or localities as presum- 
ably infected, and prohibit importation therefrom of any sheep into 
this state, except under such restrictions as the Board of Sheep Com- 
missioners shall deem proper. Any person, persons, firm or corporation 
who, after publication of such proclamation, has or receives in charge 
any sheep from any of the prohibited districts, and transports, conveys 



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or drives the same to and within the limits of this state, shall be guilty 
of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000 
and not less than $250, and such offending person or persons, firm or 
corporation shall likewise be liable for all damages that may be sus- 
tained by any person, persons, firm or corporation by reason of the 
importation or transportation into the state of such sheep from prohibited 
districts; pn^ovided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prohibit 
the transportation of animals from such prohibited district through the 
state by railroad trains or steamboat lines under such restrictions and 
regulations as may be prescribed by law of this state or by the government 
of the United States. 

Section 10. The Governor shall, through the Secretary of Agriculture 
of the United States Government, request the cooperation of the United 
States Bureau of Animal Industry in controlling and eradicating con- 
tagious and infectious diseases in sheep, and when said bureau, through 
its duly authorized representatives, agents, or employes, shall be thus 
engaged, they shall possess the same power and authority in this state 
as the State Sheep Inspector and his deputies under and by virtue of 
this act; and all dipping and other treatment required for the control and 
eradicating of such diseases within this state shall be performed in the 
manner prescribed by the Department of Agriculture of the United 
States in its regulations governing interstate shipments of sheep, and 
the dips, remedies and appliances used shall be those approved by the 
said Department of Agriculture. 

Section 11. All sheep within this state are required to be dipped 
at least once during each year with some standard dip approved as a 
remedy for scab or scabies, as a preventative of such disease, by the 
United States Department of Agriculture, whether the same at the time 
are diseased or not, and in case of diseased sheep, the same shall be 
dipped as often as required by the State Sheep Inspector, his deputies 
or the officials of the United States Government Bureau of Animal 
Industry. All dipping required under this act shall be under the direc- 
tion of said inspector or his deputies, or some official of said Bureau 
of Animal Industry. The annual dipping herein required shall be between 
the dates of April first and August first of each year. After dipping, 
and when the official in charge shall be satisfied that the sheep are in 
sound and healthy condition, the owner shall be entitled to receive a cer- 
tificate to that effect signed by said official, which certificate shall be in 
such form as the Board of Sheep Commissioners shall adopt, and which 
certificate shall permit such sheep to pass in and through all counties 
in this state, so long as they remain free from disease; provided, how- 
ever, that after the year 1907 whenever the Board of Sheep Commis- 
sioners regard the sheep of this state as free from infectious and con- 
tagious diseases it shall have the power to declare such annual dipping 
not required, arid such declaration shall be by proclamation on or before 
April first in any year; provided, that if in the judgment of the said 
Board of Sheep Commissioners and the officials of the United States 
Bureau of Animal Industry, it is found that the sheep of a certain por- 
tion of this state are free from scabies, and have not been exposed to 
the contagion thereof, and are so situated that they do not come in contact 
with sheep from other portions of this state, the said Board of Sheep 



52 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

Commissioners and said officials of the said United States Bureau of 
Animal Industry may exempt the sheep of such sections from the annual 
dippings required by this section. 

Section 12. The State Sheep Inspector and his deputies and the 
officials of said United States Bureau of Animal Industry shall have 
authority to inspect and quarantine and treat sheep affected with con- 
tagious or infectious disease, or suspected of being so affected, or that 
have been exposed to any such disease; and either of said officials may 
be called upon in writing at any time by one or more sheepgrowers 
owning sheep and paying taxes within the state to inspect any band of 
sheep in his vicinity. Upon receipt of such request such official shall 
forthwith proceed to inspect the sheep mentioned therein. If he shall 
find them free from scab or other infectious or contagious disease, the 
expenses of such inspection shall be paid by the party making such 
request, and if not paid within ten days may be recovered in civil action 
instituted in the name of the State Sheep Inspector. If, however, he 
shall find, upon inspection, that any of said sheep are infected by scab 
or any other infectious or contagious disease, or have been exposed in any 
manner to such disease, the expense of such inspection shall be paid by 
the owner of such sheep, and such inspector shall take the steps in relation 
to said sheep provided in the following section. 

Section 13. Whenever upon examination by such State Sheep Inspec- 
tor, his deputy, deputies or federal inspector, as the case may be, any 
sheep, band or flock of sheep, or any portion of them, kept or herded 
in any county of the state of Oregon, shall be found infected with scab 
or any other contagious or infectious disease, the entire band or flock 
in which said infected sheep are running or ranging shall be considered 
as infected and treated as such, and said State Sheep Inspector, his 
deputy or deputies, or the federal inspector, as the case may be, shall 
immediately quarantine the entire band or flock and forthwith notify 
the owner or person in charge of said sheep in writing, to dip said sheep 
twice for said disease within the period of thirty days from said notice; 
the first dipping not to exceed fifteen days from the receipt of said 
notice and the second dipping to be within the period of from eight 
to fourteen days from the first dipping; and also, during such period, 
to keep such sheep free from contact with other sheep by such means as 
said inspector shall specify until after the second dipping. 

Provided, that in case the owner or person in control of any sheep 
shall regard it unsafe to dip the same on account of their condition, 
especially ewes heavy with lamb, or by reason of the inclemency of the 
weather, the official in charge may authorize such owner or person 
in control to place such sheep in a corral, field, feed yard or appropriate 
range, where such sheep shall be kept under quarantine regulations and 
free from contact with other sheep until such time as they are in con- 
dition to dip. The owner shall be responsible for any and all damages 
which may be sustained by reason of such sheep coming in contact 
with sound sheep. Any person or persons so allowed to keep sheep 
in such corral, field, feed yard, or range, who shall wilfully or know- 
ingly take or permit to be taken any such sheep therefrom, except as 
directed or permitted by the inspector in charge, shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine 
of not less than $250 nor more than $1,000. 



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Section 14. Any person, persons, firm or corporation within this 
state who shall desire to move his or their sheep which are infected 
by scab or other infectious or contagious disease from place to place 
within this state, shall first obtain from the State Sheep Inspector or 
one of his deputies a traveling permit. 

Upon receipt of the application for such permit the State Sheep 
Inspector or one of his deputies shall examine the sheep and such permit 
shall only be granted for the purpose of removing said sheep to the 
nearest suitable point where there are available dipping works or where 
such works can be constructed, at which place said sheep shall be dipped 
under the direction of such official. In such removal only that route 
shall be used which such official shall designate in his permit, and 
before moving said sheep the owner or person in charge shall first 
notify all parties herding sheep along or over said route that the infected 
sheep must travel, of the fact that they are to pass and the time at which 
they will pass over said route, and such route shall be considered as 
quarantined, and any person, persons, firm or corporation injured or 
damaged by reason of the moving of said sheep shall be entitled to 
recover from the owners thereof in civil action the amount of such 
damages; provided, however, that no party shall be entitled to recover 
damages who shall voluntarily herd or cause to be herded any sheep 
on such quarantine ground, and any sheep so voluntarily herded on such 
ground, shall be considered as infected without inspection and shall be 
treated as in this act provided for infected sheep within this state. Any 
person, persons,' firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of 
this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more 
than $500. 

Section 15. Any person, persons, firm or corporation, their agents 
or employes, who shall drive or herd, or cause to be driven or herded, 
or bring or cause to be brought, by road, or trail, into the state of Oregon, 
from any other state any sheep, shall immediately upon crossing the said 
line, and before proceeding into the state a distance greater than one 
mile, make written application to the State Sheep Inspector, or his 
nearest deputy, for the inspection of said sheep, and said application 
shall be delivered in person, or by telegraph, or telephone, or registered 
letter. The notice must state the time and place and when and where 
the said sheep crossed the said line, the locality from which they came, 
the name and residence of the owner or owners thereof and of the 
person in control of the same, the number, the brands and character of 
the animals. The State Sheep Inspector, on receiving such notice, shall 
at once proceed, either by himself or his deputies, to inspect the sheep; 
and, if upon inspection he shall deem it necessary to prevent or avoid 
infection, he shall cause said sheep to be dipped not to exceed three 
times before they are released from such quarantine. Any person, per- 
sons, firm or corporation, their agents or employes, who shall ship into 
the state by railroad or steamboat lines from any other state any sheep, 
shall immediately, upon unloading the same at any point within this 
state, notify personally or by telephone, or by telegraph or registered 
letter, the State Sheep Inspector; and thereupon the said official or one 
of his deputies shall proceed to inspect said animals, and if upon inspec- 
tion he shall deem it necessary to prevent or avoid infection, he shall 



54 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

cause said sheep to be quarantined not more than one mile from the 
point where they are unloaded for such period, not to exceed sixty days, 
as may be necessary, and if he shall deem it necessary shall cause said 
sheep to be dipped not to exceed three times before they are released 
from such quarantine; provided, further, however, that such sheep are 
not for immediate slaughter, or en route through the state on the rail- 
road trains or boat lines to other states, and that any sheep held in 
quarantine under this section may be released therefrom at any time 
for the purpose of immediate slaughter. 

Any person, persons, firm or corporation violating any of the provi- 
sions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500. 
Such fine shall be a lien upon the sheep and may be foreclosed as personal 
property liens are foreclosed under the existing laws of this state, or 
may be enforced as a judgment against the offending party. 

Section 16. If any owner or person in charge of any sheep shall 
neglect or refuse to dip the same as required by the terms of this act, 
upon the request of the State Sheep Inspector or any of his deputies 
or any federal official clothed with the power under this act, or to permit 
the same to be dipped by them, it shall be the duty of such official to 
seize such animals and dip the same, and he is hereby given authority 
so to do; and when, in his opinion, they are restored to health and free 
from possible infection, he shall notify in writing the owner or person 
in charge of the sheep of the amount of the costs, charges and expenses 
incurred by him and the same shall be paid within ten days of the 
receipt of such notice, and the same shall be collected as in this act 
provided for the collection of like charges. 

Section 17. Any person, persons, firm or corporation who shall drive 
or cause to be driven, to bring or cause to be brought, ship or cause to 
be shipped into this state from any other state, any sheep infected with 
scab or any other infectious or contagious disease, and knowing the con- 
dition of the same shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $250 nor more than $1,000, 
and in case the offending party is a corporation its officers shall be 
liable in the same manner as individuals would be liable. Any transpor- 
tation company which shall convey from point to point within this state 
any sheep infected with scab or other contagious or infectious disease, 
knowing condition of the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor 
and shall be punished as in this section above provided. All corrals, 
yards, pens, sheds, chutes, cars, or boats of such companies which shall 
have been occupied by infected sheep shall immediately thereafter, and 
within forty-eight hours be disinfected by said company, and failure on 
its part so to do shall likewise be deemed a misdemeanor and punished 
as in this section above provided. Such disinfection shall be done in 
accordance with the rule of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry 
relating to disinfection of such places, boats, and cars, and the State 
Sheep inspector, his deputy, and the officials of said Bureau of Animal 
Industry shall each have authority to enforce the provisions of this 
section, and when such company shall neglect for a period of forty-eight 
hours to so disinfect, such officials may take possession of such corral, 
yards, pens, sheds, chutes, cars, or boats, and proceed to disinfect them 



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at the expense of the company, such expense to be collected by an action 
in the name of the State Sheep Inspector in any court of competent juris- 
diction. 

Section 18. It shall be unlawful to sell, exchange, give away, or in 
any manner part with to another, any sheep infected with contagious or 
infectious disease, or any animal which has, or which the owner or his 
agent or employes or the party in possession thereof has reason to 
believe has, within thirty days next preceding such transfer, been exposed 
to any infectious or contagious disease, without first notifying the proper 
purchaser or puchasers of said sheep that it is so infected, or that it 
has been so exposed; and it shall likewise be unlawful to sell, exchange, 
give away, or in any manner dispose of except to destroy, any of the meat 
of animals suffering from such infectious or contagious disease, and any 
violation of these provisions of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor, 
and the penalty upon conviction shall be a fine of not less than $100 nor 
more than $500. 

Section 19. In all cases where quarantine of sheep is authorized 
by the provisions of this act, the State Sheep Inspector and his deputies 
and the officials of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry are each 
and all empowered to designate and specify the place, limits and boundar- 
ies of any quarantine area or territory, and they are hereby given author- 
ity over the same until the purpose of such quarantine shall have been 
effected and any person, persons, firm or corporation owning or having 
in his or their possession sheep within such quarantine area, who shall 
permit or allow any of such sheep to go beyond the limits of the same, 
without permit from the official in charge, shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less 
that $100 nor more than $500, and all the officials above named are 
hereby clothed with full authority to control sheep and territory in 
quarantine, and to take and hold possession thereof as provided by the 
terms of this act, and for all the purposes thereof. 

Section 20. It shall be the duty of any person, persons, firm or 
corporation owning or having in his or their control any sheep which 
have become infected with scab or any other infectious or contagious 
disease, or which have been exposed in any manner to such disease, 
to immediately report the same to the State Sheep Inspector by 
registered letter, telegraph, telephone or in person, within fifteen days 
after the said condition has come to his or their knowledge, and failure 
to do so, or any attempt on the part of the person, persons, firm or 
corporation, to conceal the existence of such disease, or to wilfully or 
maliciously obstruct or hinder the inspector or his deputies in the discharge 
of his or their duties shall be deemed a misdemeanor and shall subject 
the offender to a fine, upon conviction, of not less than $100 nor more 
than $500. 

Section 21. The expenses of inspecting, feeding, holding, dipping, 
treating and taking care of all sheep inspected, quarantined, dipped, or 
otherwise treated under the provisions of this act, including fees and 
expenses of any deputy sheep inspector arising in connection with the 
same must be paid by the owner of such sheep, and such charge shall 
be a lien upon such sheep for such charges and expenses, which lien shall 



56 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

be prior and paramount to any and all other liens, demands or other 
claims against such sheep, and the State Sheep Inspector or his deputies 
may retain possession of such sheep until such charges and expenses have 
been paid. Such lien shall be enforced at any time after ten days from the 
date when said charge shall be incurred and shall not be dependent upon 
possession of said sheep and may be foreclosed in the name of the State 
Sheep Inspector in the manner provided for the foreclosure of other liens 
upon personal property; or in lieu of forclosing such lien said State Sheep 
Inspector may bring an action in his own name in any court of competent 
jurisdiction to recover the amount of such charges and expenses, provided, 
however, that when the work is done by the State Sheep Inspector in per- 
son he shall charge no fees. 

Section 22. The deputy sheep inspectors provided for under this act 
shall be entitled to no salary, but shall receive fees and expenses as 
follows, to-wit: For all services performed in the examination or in- 
spection of sheep or in quarantining or dipping sheep or any duties made 
incumbent upon them under this act, the sum of $5 per diem for any 
day or part of a day so utilized by them, and in addition thereto their 
actual, necessary expenses attending the performance of such duties, the 
same to be paid by the owner of the sheep as in this act provided. And 
every deputy inspector appointed under the provisions of this act must 
keep a book to be known as the "Inspection Record," in which he must 
enter and record all his official acts and accounts as such deputy inspector, 
and such record shall show the names and owners of all animals so in- 
spected, the number thereof, the reason why such inspection was made, 
the names of the persons to whom certificates of health were granted and 
the date thereof, the brands upon said sheep, all orders and directions 
made by him in each case, the amount of his per diem and expenses in 
each case, and such other matters as the Board of Sheep Commissioners 
may require. And each deputy must on or before the fifteenth day of 
October, in each year, and as often as may be required by the State 
Sheep Commissioners, report to the State Sheep Inspector in writing, 
in such details as may be required, his work and the condition of the 
sheep industry in his section of the state. 

Section 23. The State Sheep Inspector shall make an annual report on 
or before the first day of November in each year to the Board of Sheep 
Commissioners upon all matters connected with his work for the year 
then ending and the board shall make the same a part of their annual 
report to the Governor; and shall also transmit to the several boards of 
county commissioners within the state such part of said report as they 
regard necessary and of general interest to the sheep industry of the 
state. 

Section 24. All officers appointed, under the provisions of this act 
shall use every precaution to protect the sheep under their care from in- 
jury and shall select only seasonable time and proper places for quarantine 
and dipping, and shall so enforce quarantine regulations as to make the 
expenses as light as possible upon the owner, consistent with public 
interest; and any officer who, by virtue of power conferred upon him 
under this act, wilfully oppresses, wrongs or injures any person, shall 
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500. 



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Section 25. Whenever any sheep suffering from scab or any infectious 
or contagious disease shall mingle with healthy animals belonging to 
another, through the fault or negligence of the owner of said diseased 
sheep, his agent or employes, such owner shall be liable in an action at 
law for all damages sustained by the owner of such healthy sheep. 

Section 26. All fines and penalties imposed under the provisions of 
this act shall be collected in behalf of and in the name of the state, and 
shall become a part of the general fund thereof, and the offenses herein 
declared to be misdemeanors shall be prosecuted by the several district 
attorneys of the state in the circuit courts thereof in the same manner 
that misdemeanors are prosecuted under the general laws of the state. 
And it is hereby made incumbent upon such district attorneys to foreclose 
liens herein provided, when necessary, and to act in either civil or criminal 
matters under this act when requested to do so by the Board of Sheep Com- 
missioners, the State Sheep Inspector, or his deputies. 

Section 27. It shall be the duty of the boards of county commissioners 
of the several counties in this state to furnish free to the deputy sheep 
inspectors all books, blanks and other stationery necessary for them in the 
performance of their duties. Such books and stationery as may be needed 
by the Board of Sheep Commissioners and the State Sheep Inspector 
shall be furnished by the state; office rent for said board and its secre- 
tary and said Sheep Inspector, not to exceed $20 per month, shall likewise 
be paid by the state. 

Section 28. The official bonds provided in this act shall be given to 
the state as herein provided, but may be sued upon by any person injured 
because of negligent or unfaithful performance of duty upon the part of 
the official giving such bond; provided, that no action shall be instituted 
after twelve months have elapsed from the date the cause of such action 
accrued. 

Section 29. There is hereby set apart out of any funds belonging to 
the state, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $12,000 for the purpose 
of carrying into effect the terms of this act and the payment of salaries 
and expenses herein provided, for the ensuing two years. 

Section 30. The provisions of article V, chapter VI, title XXXVII of 
Bellinger and Cottons Annotated Codes and Statutes of Oregon, relating 
to the preventing of the spread of contagious diseases among animals, 
shall not be deemed to apply to sheep from and after the passage of this 
act. 

Section 31. It is hereby adjudged and declared that existing condi- 
tions are such that this act is necessary for the immediate preservation 
of public peace, health and safety, and should be excepted from the exer- 
cise of a referendum; and owing to the urgent necessity of restoring 
health among the sheep of the state, and securing the removal, as early 
as possible, of the federal quarantine against the state now existing be- 
cause of the diseased condition of said animals, an emergency is hereby 
declared to exist; and this act shall take effect and be in full force 
and effect from and after its approval by the Governor. 

Filed in the office of the Secretary of state, February 25, 1907. 



58 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

RULES AND REGULATIONS 

ADOPTED BY THE 

STATE LIVE STOCK SANITARY BOARD 

CONSTITUTING EX OFFICIO THE 

STATE BOARD OF SHEEP COMMISSIONERS 

RULE No. 1 
The inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States, 
having been appointed special deputy state sheep inspectors of the state 
of Oregon by the State Sheep Inspector, while acting as such special 
deputy state sheep inspectors are hereby empowered and directed to go 
to any county or locality in the state of Oregon and there perform the 
duties of deputy sheep inspector and to assist the State Sheep Inspector 
or any of his other deputies in such county or locality. 

RULE No. 2 

The State Board of Sheep Commissioners of Oregon hereby gives its 
consent and indicates its willingness that the Bureau of Animal Industry 
of the United States and its employes shall come within the state of 
Oregon for all purposes connected with the exportation of diseased 
sheep and for the extirpation of infectious and contagious disease among 
sheep. The State Board of Sheep Commissioners of Oregon hereby ac- 
cepts and adopts the rules and regulations prepared by the Secretary of 
Agriculture of the United States under authority conferred and in pur- 
suance of the acts of congress approved May 29, 1884, February 2, 1903, 
and March 3, 1905, and said board agrees to cooperate with the authority 
of the United States in the enforcement of the provisions of said acts 
in the suppression and extirpation of all contagious and infectious dis- 
eases among sheep. 

RULE No. 3 

The inspectors of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States 
are hereby given authority and shall have the right of inspection, quaran- 
tine and condemnation of domestic animals affected with contagious and 
infectious disease or suspected of being so affected, or that have in any 
manner been exposed to such disease, and are hereby given authority 
to take such measures as may be necessary to control and eradicate con- 
tagious and infectious diseases in sheep, and for these purposes are 
granted all of the authority of the State Sheep Inspector or his various 
deputy state sheep inspectors, and are authorized and empowered to 
enter upon any ground or premises in this state for the purpose of en- 
forcing the inspection, quarantine, dipping and condemnation laws of this 
state as may or could be done by the State Sheep Inspector or any of 
his deputies. 

RULE No. 4 

After the said dipping by the State Sheep Inspector, his deputy or fed- 
eral inspectors, of any sound sheep, under the annual dipping provisions 
of the new Oregon sheep laws, or after two or more dippings of infected 
sheep, and when said inspector is satisfied that said infected sheep are 



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cured, he shall issue to the owner or person in charge of said sheep a 
certificate of health in the following form : 

CERTIFICATE OF HEALTH 

State of Oregon, County 

No. Dated at , 19— 

This is to certify, That I have this day of examined- 



sheep belonging- to — : P. 0. and find the sheep to be free 

from scabies and exposure thereto. The said sheep having been dipped 

by at ■. 

This certificate shall permit the said sheep to pass in and through all 
counties of this state so long as they remain free from disease and ex- 
posure thereto. 
Description , age , brand , sex . Fees charged . 

Inspector. 
A duplicate of said certificate shall be immediately sent to the office 
of the State Sheep Inspector. The State Sheep Inspector and deputy 
inspectors shall use such forms and blanks and make such reports as 
the board shall from time to time designate. 

RULE No. 5 

Each deputy state sheep inspector shall make a report to the office 
of the State Sheep Inspector of each band of sheep inspected and the 
condition in which the sheep are found, the brand, name and owner, date 
of inspection or dipping, kinds of dip used, fees received, if any, trailing 
or shipping designation, and sudh other information as he may deem to 
be of interest to the State Sheep Inspector, together with the duplicate 
of certificate of health provided for in Rule 4. For the dipping dur- 
ing 1907 the report blank furnished by the State Sheep Inspector shall 
be used and may be sent to the inspector in cha?*ge of the Bureau of 
Animal Industry at Pendleton, Oregon. 

RULE No. 6 

Whenever the board shall declare to be clean any county or portion 
thereof, sheep from an infected territory or county within the state shall 
not enter upon said clean domain without first obtaining from the in- 
spector of the territory from which said sheep are driven or shipped, 
a certificate of health showing that said sheep have been uninfected for 
a period of at least three months preceding the date of said inspection, 
and that said sheep have not been exposed in any manner to any 
contagious or infectious disease, and said sheep if passed must enter 
said clean domain within ten days following such inspection; Provided 
said sheep may enter said clean domain after being dipped as exposed 
sheep. 

RULE No. 7 

Whenever an inspector finds a band of sheep infected with scabies or 
other contagious or infectious disease, or that have been exposed in any 
manner to any contagious and infectious disease, he shall immediately 
place the said sheep in quarantine and give to the owner or person in 
charge thereof a notice in writting in the following form: 



60 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

NOTICE OF QUARANTINE 

State of Oregon, County 



No. Dated at — , 19 — 

This is to certify, That I Have this day examined sheep, belonging' 

to , P. 0. — — , and find the said sheep to be infected with and 

exposed to scabies, and I do hereby notify you to dip the said sheep 

within the period of thirty days for said disease under supervision of the 
proper officer; the first dipping to be within fifteen days from the receipt 
of this notice and the second dipping to be within a period of from eight 
to fourteen days after the first dipping. During such period and until 
released from this quarantine you are notified to keep such sheep free 
from contact with other sheep and within the following described boun- 
daries . The said sheep shall only be moved from within the above 

described area along the following described route and you shall be 

liable for all damages resulting from such removal. 

Description , brands , age . Fees charged — — . 



Inspector. 

And said sheep must be treated according to the provisions of section 
13, chapter 223, session laws of Oregon for 1907, and the rules and 
regulations of this Board, and if said sheep can not be taken to an ad- 
jacent dipping plant without coming in contact with uninfected sheep 
or crossing the lands and lease holds of other flock masters, or trails or 
roads, or public range used by other flock masters for grazing sheep, 
then said sheep must be treated in the -immediate vicinity, the place of 
said treatment to be designated by the State Sheep Inspector or one of his 
deputies. 

RULE No. 8 

The Board will refuse to recognize as dipped any sheep not dipped 
under the supervision of the Government or State Sheep Inspector or 
his deputies and in accordance with the rules and regulations of this 
Board. Mixing of all dip must be supervised by the Federal or State 
Sheep Inspector or his deputy. 

RULE No. 9 

When dips other than those approved by the Bureau of Animal In- 
dustry have been used, the inspectors will require a redipping under 
state or federal supervision. 

The dips now approved are: 

(a) The lime and sulphur dip made with eight pounds of unslaked 
lime and twenty-four pounds of flowers of sulphur to one hundred gallons 
of water; the lime and sulphur should be boiled together for not less than 
two hours and all sediment allowed to settle before the liquid is placed 
in the dipping vat. 

(b) All tobacco and patent dips composed of tobacco that have been 
approved by the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agri- 
cultur of the United States, a list of which is published from time to time. 



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The vats and other utensils required for said dipping shall be of such 
proportions and size as to facilitate the handling of sheep within a 
reasonable period of time. 

RULE No. 10 

The dipping must be done carefully and the sheep handled as hu- 
manely as possible. The commission and State Sheep Inspector assume 
no responsibility, however, for loss or damage resulting from dipping. 

RULE No. 11 

The sheep must be in the dip between two and three minutes and their 
heads be submerged at least once, though but for an instant at a time. 

The dip must be maintained at a temperature of between 100 degrees 
F. and 105 degrees F. while the sheep are in it. It must be changed 
as soon as it becomes filthy, regardless of the number of sheep dipped in 
it and in no case shall it be used when more than one week old. In 
emptying the dipping vat, the entire contents must be removed, including 
all sediment and droppings or other foreign matter. 

Sheep visibly infected with scabies shall be separated from the re- 
mainder of the flock and before being dipped shall be treated or "hand 
spotted" with some preparation destructive to scabies. 

Infected sheep which have become strangled while in the dip and then 
removed from the vat must after recovery be again placed in the dip 
and allowed to remain the time limit. 

RULE No. 12 

AU bucks must be thoroughly dipped and inspectors will see that 
special attention is given to the dipping of infected bucks, and they shall 
remain in the vat not less than three minutes. 

RULE No. 13 

Public corrals of all kinds, cars and other vehicles, yards, pens, sheds, 
chutes that have contained infected or exposed sheep within the past 
four months and have not been disinfected, shall be treated as exposed 
premises, and sheep entering upon same shall be treated as exposed 
sheep. 

Cleaning and disinfection shall be done by first removing all litter 
and manure and then saturating the interior surfaces of the cars and 
woodwork, flooring and ground of the chutes, alleys, and pens with a 
five per cent solution of crude carbolic acid in water, or other recognized 
disinfectants, with sufficient lime to show where it has been applied. 

All stock yards shall be kept clean and free from infection. 

RULE No. 14 

The members of the Board shall see that the • provisions of the law 
relating to the sheep industry are enforced and carried out in their 
respective communities. 



62 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

RULE No. 15 

All sheep shall be dipped under the annual dipping provisions as is 
required in section 11 of chapter 223 of the session laws of Oregon 
for 1907 before leaving their winter ranges, where the same is possible. 

RULE No. 16 

The deputy state sheep inspectors, after any inspection, quarantine 
or dipping of any sheep, shall forthwith report the same to the office of 
the State Sheep Inspector in such form and on such blanks as are desig- 
nated, and all sheep coming into the state which are required to be in- 
spected, quarantined or dipped by the laws of the state of Oregon or the 
rules of the Board, shall be reported within ten days by the deputy sheep 
inspector in charge of such inspection or dipping, giving all the facts 
required in the notice of said foreign sheep by the owner thereof, as set 
forth in section 15, chapter 223, session laws of Oregon for 1907. 



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63 



Section 


4804. 


Section 


4805. 


Section 


4806. 


Section 


4807. 


Section 


4808 


Section 


4809. 


Section 


4810. 


Section 


4811. 


Section 


4812. 


Section 


4813. 



Part III 
VETERINARY MEDICAL LAWS OF OREGON 



Oregon State Veterinary Medical Board. 
Terms of Members. 
Officers and Meetings. 
Compensation of Members. 
Examination and Licenses. 
Revoking of Licenses. 
Fees of Applicants — Disposition Of. 
Licenses to be recorded. 

Practice Contrary to Provisions — Misdemeanor — Vacan- 
cies in Board. 
Definition of Terms. 



OREGON STATE VETERINARY MEDICAL EXAMINING 

BOARD 

Dr. J. M. Creamer, President Portland 

Dr. F. T. Notz, Secretary Baker 

Dr. R. E. Hunt, Member ..Roseburg 

Dr. W. H. Lytle, Member Salem 

Dr. E. E. Chase, Member Portland 

Address all communications to Dr. F. T. Notz, Secretary, Baker, 
Oregon. 



64 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

VETERINARY MEDICAL LAWS 

Section 4803. Practice of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery. — It shall 
be unlawful for any person to practice veterinary medicine and surgei-y 
in the state of Oregon, except as in this act provided. [Laws 1903, p. 154, 
Sec. 1.] 

Section 4804. Oregon State Veterinary Medical Board. — There is here- 
by created a board, whose duty it shall be to carry out the purposes and 
enforce the provisions of this act, which shall be styled the Oregon State 
Veterinary Medical Examining Board, all members of which hereafter 
appointed shall be graduate veterinarians from veterinary colleges or 
veterinary departments of universities or colleges of good standing and 
repute, and not more than two members appointed to serve on this 
board shall be from the same veterinary college or veterinary depart- 
ment of a university or college. The present appointed members of the 
Oregon State Veterinary Medical Board shall serve as members of this 
Board until the expiration of their present appointed terms and until 
their successors are appointed and qualified. [Laws 1911, p. 431, Sec. 2.] 

Section 4805. Terms of Members. — The aforesaid Board shall con- 
sist of five members, and any appointments to fill vacancies by reason 
of death, resignation or removal shall be made by the Governor for the 
residue of the term of the retiring member, and all subsequent appoint- 
ments, except as herein provided, shall be made by the Governor for a 
period of four (4) years. [Laws 1911, p. 431, Sec. 3.] 

Section 4806. Officers and Meetings. — There shall be elected by 
said board at its first meeting from among its members, a president, 
who shall preside at all meetings, and a secretary, who shall keep a 
record of all business transacted thereat. In the absence of the presi- 
dent, the members present shall elect a temporary chairman, who shall 
preside at such meeting. Three members of said board shall constitute 
a quorum to transact any business coming before it. The meeting place 
of the board shall be wherever in the state of Oregon the board may 
deem most convenient for the greatest number of applicants for license. 
[Laws 1903 p. 1 54, Sec. 4.] 

Section 4807. Compensation of Members. — The members of said 
board shall each receive as full compensation the sum of five dollars ($5) 
per diem for attendance and performance of duties at any regular called 
meeting of the board (exclusive of the time engaged in travel to and 
from the place of meeting) , together with their actual and necessary 
expenses incurred during these meetings and in traveling from their 
respective places of residence to the place of meeting and return; provided, 
such compensation and expenses do not exceed said income of fees ac- 
cruing under this act, the same to be paid out of a fund and in a man- 
ner hereinafter provided. [Laws 1911, p. 431, Sec. 5.] 

Section 4808. Examination and Licenses. — Every person hereafter 
desiring to practice veterinary medicine and surgery or dentistry in this 
state, except as hereinafter provided, shall make a written application to 
the Secretary of said Board for an examination granting a license so to do, 
which application shall be accompanied by a diploma, issued to such 
applicant by a veterinary college, or veterinary department of a university 



RELATING TO LIVE STOCK SANITATION 65 

or college of good standing and repute. Such application shall be sup- 
ported by an affidavit of such applicant, setting forth the actual time 
spent by such applicant in the study of veterinary medicine and surgery, 
the name and the location of the institution where such study was made, 
the time the applicant shall have been engaged in the practice of veterin- 
ary medicine and surgery, if at all, the age of the applicant at the time of 
making application. Such application and affidavit shall be filed and 
preserved of record in the office of the secretary of said Board. If the 
diploma accompaning said application is found to be genuine and is issued 
by a veterinary college or veterinary department of a university or 
college of good standing and repute, which facts the said Board of 
Examiners must determine, and if the person presenting or claiming 
said diploma be the person to whom the said diploma was originally 
granted; a temporary certificate to practice veterinary medicine and 
surgery shall be given said applicant until the first meeting thereafter 
called and held by the Board, and no longer. Failure to surrender such 
certificates upon receipt of notice from the seretary of said Board shall 
constitute a misdemeanor. At a time and place designated by said 
Board said applicant shall submit to an examination in the following 
branches, to-wit: Veterinary and comparative anatomy, physiology, 
histology, pathology, materia medica, therapeutics, sanitary and pre- 
ventative medicine, surgery, bacteriology, milk and meat inspection, prac- 
tice of veterinary medicine, physical diagnosis, poisonous plants and 
toxicology, and .such other branches as the Board shall deem advisable. 
Said Board shall cause said examination to be both scientific and practical 
and of sufficient severity to test the candidate's fitness to practice veter- 
inary medicine and surgery, which examination shall be written, printed, 
partly written or printed questions and answers; or by oral examination 
and .recorded answers, and the same shall be filed and preserved of 
record in the office of the secretary of said Board. Said examination 
(written or printed) shall be conducted in the following prescribed man- 
ner: Applicant, having previously obtained permission to appear for ex- 
amination, shall fill out a form, giving full name and address, and the 
name of the veterinary college, or veterinary department of a university 
or college from which he or she graduated, agreeing to designate all 
examination papers only by such marks, or numbers, as are found on the 
aforesaid form, and to cause said form to be sealed and delivered to some 
responsible party for safe keeping, and not to be opened by any person, 
member of said Examining Board, or other, until the said examination 
papers have been marked and judged, agreeing further, to seal all examin- 
ation papers in unmarked envelopes before delivering same to members 
of the said examining board, and not to in any manner reveal the designat- 
ing mark, or number, to any person, member of the Board, or other, until 
the said examination papers have been finally marked and graded. 
After examination if the same be satisfactory, said board shall grant a 
license to such applicant to practice veterinary medicine, surgery and 
dentistry in the state of Oregon, which said license can only be granted 
by consent of not less than four (4) members of said board, except as 
hereinafter provided, and which said license shall be signed by the 
president and secretary of said Board and attested by the seal thereof; 
provided, that all persons who have been regularly licensed under here- 
tofore existing laws of the state, and having complied with the provisions 



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thereof, shall be taken and considered as licensed veterinarians under 
this act, and the names of such persons shall be entered as licensed 
veterinarians upon the official register kept by the secretary of said 
Board; provided further, that all persons who have been previously 
granted permits under heretofore existing laws, and having complied 
with the provisions thereof, that they and each of them be considered 
as holders of permits under this act, the same being subject to renewals 
at intervals of four (4) years from the last date of issuance, and the 
names of such persons shall be entered as permit veterinarians upon 
the official register kept by the secretary of said Board; provided, that 
the holder of any permit be restricted to the original territory designated 
in the original or first permit. [Laws 1911. p. 432, Sec. 4.] 

Section 4809. Revoking of License. — With the consent of four (4) 
members thereof, the Board may revoke a permit or license granted to 
any holder thereof under this act for unprofessional or dishonorable 
conduct. Before a permit or license can be revoked for such cause the 
Board must serve notice in writing on the holder of the permit or license, 
attaching thereto a copy of any charge or charges against him or her, 
and appoint a day of hearing at which time the licensee or- any witness 
in his or her behalf may appear and give testimony in refutation of 
such charge. In case the Board, after such hearing, still desires to re- 
voke the permit or license of the holder thereof, the decision specifically 
stating the ground upon which such permit or license was revoked, 
must be reduced in writing and a copy thereof delivered to the holder 
of said permit or license upon the demand of any such holder. Upon a 
like hearing the Board may revoke a permit or license to any holder 
thereof who shall publicly profess to cure or treat diseases of a highly 
contagious, infectious and incurable nature, or in any way care or treat 
injury and deformity in such a way as to deceive the public, test any 
horse or horses, mule ass or asses, for glanders; cow, cows or cattle, 
for tuberculosis, and knowingly, wrongfully and maliciously, state verbally 
or in writing that the said animals are diseased or in a disease-free condi- 
tion contrary to the indication of the test made. The hearing provided for 
herein must take place within twenty (20) days after service of the 
copy of the charge or charges upon the holder of a revoked permit or 
license, and the decision of the Board must not be later than ten (10) 
days after the hearing. The Board with the concurrence of four (4) mem- 
bers thereof, may refuse to issue or renew a permit or license for unpro- 
fessional or dishonorable conduct. All permits and licenses herein provided 
for in this act shall cover a period of four (4) years' issuance and shall 
be renewed upon request of the holder thereof, provided a fee of five 
dollars ($5) is paid the secretary of said Board for each renewal thereof. 
This act shall not apply to commissioned veterinary surgeons of the 
United States Army, or those in the employ of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry,' unless they enter into a general practice, and nothing herein 
shall be so construed as to prevent any person from practicing veterinary 
medicine and surgery or dentistry on any animal belonging to himself or 
herself or for gratuitous service to a friend, or from dehorning and 
vaccinating cattle. And nothing in this act shall be so construed as to 
prevent the examining board from accepting applicants without examina- 
tion, upon the submission of evidence of graduation and the payment 



RELATING TO LIVE STOCK SANITATION 67 

of examination fees, who have passed an examination held to be equal 
in practicability and thoroughness under the jurisdiction of the federal 
government. [Laws 1911, p. 333, Sec. 7.] 

Section 4810. Fees of Applicants — Disposition of. — Candidates for 
examination shall pay to the secretary of the said board, at the time of 
examination, a fee of fifteen dollars ($15) which shall be used for the 
defraying of the expenses of said board, any excess of which shall be 
paid over to the State Treasurer and placed in a fund known as the 
Oregon State Veterinary Medical Fund, to be paid out by him on war- 
rants, or orders drawn upon him and signed by the president and 
secretary of said board, in case of deficit. All applicants failing to 
pass said examination shall be given one additional regular examination 
if within any period not exceeding twelve months next thereafter, and no 
charges shall be made for re-examination. The secretary of said examin- 
ing' board shall make an annual report to the Governor on or before 
December 1 of each year, which report shall include a list of names and 
addresses of all persons having licenses or permits granted, renewed, 
refused or revoked, giving cause therefor, the amount of all money re- 
ceived and expended, and from what source, or for what purpose, the 
amount is paid into, or drawn from the Oregon State Veterinary Medical 
Fund as the case may be. [Laws 1911, p. 435, Sec. 8.] 

Section 481,1. Licenses to be Recorded. — All licenses, as aforesaid, 
shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk in the county where 
the holder of such license may reside. [Laws 1903, p. 154, Sec. 9.] 

Section 4812. Practice Contrary to Provisions, Misdemeanor — Vacan- 
cies in Board. — Any person practicing veterinary medicine and surgery, 
or dentistry, in the state contrary to the provisions of this act shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not 
less than $50 nor more than $250, or by imprisonment in the county jail 
not exceeding six months, or both. The fine collected under this act 
shall be paid over to the president of said board and become a part of 
its fund. All vacancies in the board shall be filled by the Governor by 
appointment for such unexpired term. [Laws 1903, p. 154, Sec. 10.] 

Section 4813. Definition of Terms. — The term "veterinary college, or 
veterinary department of a university or college, of good standing and 
repute" as used in this act, shall be considered to mean any veterinary 
college or department of a university or college, legally organized, whose 
instructors are graduates of reputable veterinary or medical colleges, and 
having a course of not less than two years of six months each, prior to 
August 1, 1908, after which date the course shall not be less than three 
years, of not less than five months each ; and any person shall be regarded 
as practicing veterinary medicine, surgery and dentistry within the mean- 
ing of this act who shall, within this state (a) by advertisement, or by 
any notice, sign or other indication, or by a statement written, printed or 
oral, in public or private, made, done or procured, by himself or herself, 
or any other, at his or her request, for him or her, claim, announce, make 
known or pretend his or her ability or willingness to diagnose diseases, 
deformities, defects, wounds or injuries of animals; (b) or who shall so 
advertise or make known or claim his or her ability and willingness to 



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prescribe or administer any drug-, medicine, treatment, method or practice, 
or to perform any operation, manipulation, or apply any apparatus or 
appliance for cure, amelioration, correction or reduction or modification 
of any animal disease, deformity, defect, wound, or injury, for hire, fee, 
compensation, or reward, promised, offered, expected, received or accepted, 
directly or indirectly; (c) or who shall within this state diagnose or prog- 
nose any animal diseases, deformities, defects, wounds or injuries, for hire, 
fee, reward, or compensation, promised, offered, expected, received or 
accepted, directly or indirectly; (d) or who shall within this state pre- 
scribe or administer any drug, medicine, treatment, method or practice 
or perform any operation or manipulation, or apply any apparatus or 
appliance for the cure, amelioration, correction, or modification of any 
animal disease, deformity, defect, wound or injury, for hire, fee, com- 
pensation or reward, promised, offered, expected, received or accepted, 
directly or indirectly, and it shall be unlawful for any person to append 
any letters to his, or her name indicating a degree in veterinary medicine, 
or otherwise who is not in fact legally entitled to the use of the same. 
[Laws 1911, p. 345, Sec. 11.] 



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69 



Part IV 

MEAT INSPECTION LAWS OF THE STATE, TOGETHER 
WITH RULES AND REGULATIONS 

Section 1. Defining "Meat" and "Meat-food Products." 

Section 2. Defining "Unwholesome." 

Section 3. Defining "Establishment." 

Section 4. Defining "Equipment." 

Section 5. Defining "Person" — "Board" — "Food Commissioner" — "City 
of First Class" — "City of Second Class" — "Cities, Towns 
or Districts of Third Class." 

Section 6. Establishment must be kept in sanitary condition. . 

Section 7. Unlawful to feed offal to swine — Where. 

Section 8. Unlawful to manufacture or sell for food unwholesome meat. 

Section 9. Unlawful to permit contamination of meat or meat food 
product. 

Section 10. Unlawful to sell meat from swine fed on carrion. 

Section 11. Board may appoint agents to enforce law — Who may be 
appointed. 

Section 12. Authority of agents to enter establishments. 

Section 13. Unlawful to hinder or impede agent in performance of his 
duties. 

Section 14. Wholesome meat or meat-food products may be marked or 
stamped by agent. 

Section 15. Unwholesome meat or meat-food products to be condemned 
and properly marked. 

Section 16. Defects in etablishments to be reported to owner and to 
Board — Board to order defect remedied — To close estab- 
lishment when order is not complied with. 

Section 17. Exemption of establishments — When. 

Section 18. Unlawful for agents of Board to pass unwholesome meat — 
to fail to report same — to fail to report violations of 
this act — to accept gift of value offered with intent to 
influence discharge of duties. 

Section 19. Unlawful to offer agent gift of value with intent to influ- 
ence discharge of duties. 

Section 20. Misuse of stamps and marks unlawful — Unlawful to fail to 
report owner of diseased animal. 

Section 21. Authority given Board to enforce act and pass rules and 
regulations. 

Section 22. Providing punishment for violation of Act. 

Section 23. Act to be enforced as Board shall direct. 



70 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

MEAT INSPECTION LAW 

Chapter 417, Laws of 1917 

Section 1. That the terms "meat" and "meat-food products" when- 
ever used in this act, shall include the carcasses or parts of car- 
casses of cattle, sheep, other ruminants, and swine, and the meat of 
such animals and the meat-food products of such animals. 

Section 2. The term "unwholesome," as used in this act, shall be 
understood to include all meats or meat-food products which are diseased, 
contaminated, putrid, unsound, unhealthful, or unfit for food. 

Section 3. The word "establishment," as used in this act, shall include 
(1) any building, or structure in which slaughtering, butchering, meat 
canning, meat packing, meat manufacturing or rendering is carried on; 
and (2) the ground upon which such building or structure is erected, 
and so much ground adjacent thereto as is used in carrying on the busi- 
ness of such establishment; and (3) any place or any vehicle where meat 
or meat-food products are prepared, manufactured, stored, sold, offered 
for sale, exposed for sale, or transported by land or by water. 

Section 4. The word "equipment," as used in this act, shall include 
all machinery, fixtures, containers, vessels, tools, implements, and appara- 
tus used in and about an establishment. 

Section 5. The word "person" shall include individuals, partnerships, 
corporations, and associations. Masculine words shall include the feminine 
or neuter. The singular shall include the plural. 

The "Board" shall mean the "State Live Stock Sanitary Board." 
The words "Food Commissioner" shall mean the "State Dairy and Food 
Commissioner." 

The words "city of the first class" as used in this act shall include 
all cities within the state of Oregon having at the time of the last federal 
census a population of 150,000 or over; "city of the second class" shall 
include all cities within the state of Oregon having a population of 2,000 
or over and under 150,000 at the time of the last federal census; "cities, 
towns or districts of the third class" shall include all cities or towns 
having at the time of the taking of the last federal census, a population 
of less than 2,000 inhabitants. 

Section 6. Every establishment, including all equipment therein or 
thereon, shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. 

Section 7. It is unlawful to feed offal, blood, or slaughterhouse 
refuse to swine within two hundred feet of an establishment other than a 
vehicle. 

Section 8. It is unlawful to manufacture for food, prepare for food, 
sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, or have in one's possession for the 
purpose of sale, any unwholesome meat or unwholesome meat-food product. 

Section 9. It is unlawful in an establishment to permit any meat or 
meat-food product to be touched or handled by any person other than the 
owner, lessee, or manager of an establishment, or other than the agent 



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or employe of such owner, lessee, or manager, or to permit any meat or 
meat-food products to be exposed to insects, animals, or fowls. 

Section 10. It is unlawful to sell, offer for sale, or to expose for sale, 
any meat or meat-food product from swine to which have been fed any 
carrion. 

Section 11. The Board, in enforcing the provisions of this act, may 
appoint employes of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
engaged in the examination of animals, meats or meat-food products. 
County veterinarians, veterinarians or employes engaged in the examina- 
tion of animals, meats or meat-food products, for any city or municipality 
within the state of Oregon, regularly licensed graduate veterinarians, reg- 
ularly licensed practitioners of human medicine, or any experienced hand- 
ler of meats, or meat-food product, other than the owner or party in charge 
of any abattoir or meat-killing establishment, as agents under the pro- 
visions of this section, who shall receive no compensation as such agents 
from the state of Oregon. 

In addition to the agents provided for above in this section, the Board 
may, in enforcing this act, assign any employe of the Board to perform 
duties as agent under this act, and may enter into a cooperative agree- 
ment with the State Dairy and Food Commissioner of the state of 
Oregon whereby such deputies or assistants to said Dairy and Food 
Commissioner shall be empowered to perform the duties as agents under 
this act; and the Board may further enter into a cooperative agreement 
with the several regularly appointed county agricultural agents of the 
state of Oregon whereby such agents shall be empowered to perform 
the duties as agents under this act without additional expense to the 
state, county or the owner of the butchering or meat-packing establish- 
ment with which they perform their duties as herein specified. 

Each employe assigned to serve as agent under this act shall have 
knowledge of the diseases of meat-producing animals, and shall be versed 
in the condition that effect the wholesomeness of animal food products. 
An appropriate standard of fitness for such agents shall be maintained 
by the Board. 

The appointment, qualifications, powers and duties of each such agent 
shall be governed by the provisions of this act, and by such rules and 
regulations for the enforcement of this act as may be adopted and 
promulgated by the Board. Each such agent may be dismissed at any 
time by the Board. 

Section 12. Any duly authorized agent or employe of the Board may 
at any time enter any establishment and examine the same, to ascertain 
whether the provisions of this act are being observed. 

Section 13. It is unlawful to hinder, impede, or prevent any duly 
authorized agent or employe of the Board from entering any establish- 
ment in the performance of his duty, or from making any examination 
duly ordered in enforcing this act. 

Section 14. Any agent authorized under this act to examine, may, 
under the rules and regulations prescribed by the Board, mark, stamp, 
or otherwise designate any animal or meat or meat-food product found 
on examination to be wholesomja and fit for food. 



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Section 15. If, upon examination of any establishment, any diseased 
animal or any unwholesome meat, or any unwholesome meat-food product 
is found, such animal or meat or product shall be condemned, properly 
marked and designated, and treated in such a way that it can not there- 
after be used for food. 

Section 16. If, upon examination, it is found that any establishment, 
or any part of an establishment, or any equipment, is in an unclean or 
insanitary condition, or is being conducted or used in such manner as to 
make it probable that the meat or meat-food products therein may be 
rendered unwholeseome, or is being conducted or used in violation of 
this act, the agent making such examination shall report the unlawful 
condition to the Board, and shall at the same time notify, in writing, the 
owner, lessee, or manager of the establishment. 

Upon receipt of such report, the Board in cooperation with the Food 
Commissioner, by their executive officers, or otherwise as they may 
direct, shall notify the proper owner, lessee, or manager of the result 
of the .examination, and direct that the unlawful condition be remedied 
within the time specified in the notice; provided, that the time so speci- 
fied shall be not less than twenty-four hours, unless the unlawful con- 
dition mentioned in said notice is of such character and nature as, in 
the opinion of the Board and Food Commissioner, their executive officers, 
or agents, can be removed immediately. 

If, upon the expiration of the time specified in the notice, the condi- 
tion so reported to exist shall not have been remedied, the Board or Food 
Commissioner by their executive officers may order the establishment 
closed. It is unlawful to operate an establishment, or any part thereof, 
which has been closed by order of the executive officer of the Board or 
Food Commissioner, until the unlawful condition reported to exist has 
been remedied to the satisfaction of said officer of the Board or Food 
Commissioner. 

The closing of an establishment, or any part thereof, shall not preclude 
prosecution for violation of this act. 

Section 17. Butchering or packing establishments supplying meat and 
meat-food products to any city within the state of Oregon designated as 
a city of the first class shall be exempted from the provisions of this act 
so long as there is maintained a system of municipal meat inspection 
within said city; and all establishments operating within the state of 
Oregon under a system of federal meat inspection shall be exempted from 
the provisions of this act. Butchering or packing establishments supply- 
ing meat and meat-food products to any city within the state of Oregon 
designated as a city of the second class shall be exempted from the pro- 
visions of this act if the said establishments are operating in any city 
having municipal meat inspection, or upon a system of municipal meat 
inspection approved by the Board being established within the said city 
of the second class. Butchering and packing establishments supplying 
meat and meat-food products to any city, town or district of the third 
class shall come under the provisions of this act at all times and except 
only when a written inspection exemption permit is issued by the Board. 



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Section 18. It is unlawful for any agent of the Board, or any special 
meat hygiene agent: 

1. To approve or pass any diseased animal intended to be slaughtered 
for food, or any unwholesome meat, or any unwholesome meat-food pro- 
duct; 

2. To fail to condemn and mark, and cause to be rendered unfit for 
food, any diseased animal, unwholesome meat, or unwholesome meat-food 
product, found on examination of an establishment to be unfit for food; 

3. To fail to report as required any violation of this act; 

4. Directly or indirectly to accept or agree to accept anything of value, 
monetary or otherwise, given or offered to such agent to influence him 
in the discharge of his duties. 

Section 19. It is unlawful to give or offer to give, directly or indirectly 
to an agent or employe of the Board, or to a special meat hygiene agent, 
anything of value, monetary or otherwise, with intent to influence such 
agent or employe in the discharge of his duties under the provisions of 
this act. 

Section 20. It is unlawful to make, imitate, duplicate, reproduce, 
or counterfeit any stamp, mark, tag, certificate, or emblem, used or 
authorized by the Board to be used, for marking or designating animals 
or meat or meat-food products that have been either approved or con- 
demned under the provisions of this act, or to fail to report the owner's 
name and address of any diseased animal, if known. 

It is unlawful, without specific authority in writing from the Board, 
to use for any purpose any such stamp, mark, tag, certificate or emblem. 

Section 21. This act shall be enforced by the Board. To that end 
it may adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as it may deem 
necessary. So far as practicable the regulations of the meat hygiene 
service of the United States Department of Agriculture shall be included 
in the rules and regulations of the Board. 

Section 22. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of 
this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, 
shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or 
to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both. If the 
violation shall be by a corporation, partnership or association, the direc- 
tors of such corporation or the members of such partnership or association, 
its agents or employes, with guilty knowledge of the fact, shall also be 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished as 
aforesaid. 

The fines imposed as aforesaid shall be for the use of the state, shall 
be paid to a duly authorized agent of the Board, and shall be by the Board 
paid into the state treasury. 

Section 23. Any duty imposed upon, or power given to the Board by 
this act, may be done or exercised as the Board may, by standing or 
special order, direct. [Chapter 417, Laws of 1917.] 



74 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE MEAT 

HYGIENE SERVICE OF THE OREGON STATE 

LIVE STOCK SANITARY BOARD 

Responsibility of Owners, Managers, Etc. — 1. Owners, lessees, occu- 
piers or managers of all abattoirs, slaughtering, packing, meat canning, 
meat maufacturing or rendering establishments and of places or vehicles 
where meat is prepared, stored, sold, or transported, are required by law 
to construct, arrange, equip, manage and care for such establishments 
in such manner that the meats or meat products therein prepared, stored 
or sold shall not be injuriously affected as to soundness, healthfulness or 
wholesomeness, nor otherwise rendered unfit for human food. The terms 
"meats" and "meat products," wherever used in these regulations, shall 
include and apply to all carcasses, or parts of carcasses of cattle, sheep, 
swine, and goats, and the meat or meat food products thereof. 

2. No person, firm or corporation, or any officer or agent of such 
person, firm or corporation, shall sell, offer for sale, expose with intent 
to sell, or prepare for use as human food, any meat or meat product 
from an animal that is in such condition that its flesh is unsound, unhealth- 
ful, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human food. Provide!, that the 
meat or meat product of any immature animal shall be deemed and taken 
to be unhealthful, unwholesome, and unfit for human food. Nor shall 
any unsound, unhealthful, or unwholesome meat or meat product be sold, 
or offered for sale, or exposed with intent to sell, for use as human food, 
or be manufactured or prepared for use as human food, 

Construction and Sanitation of Buildings. — 3. Buildings used for 
slaughtering, packing, canning or manufacturing meats or meat products 
shall not be used as dwellings, or place of residences, nor for any pur- 
pose that may have a tendency to affect injuriously the meats or meat 
products therein prepared. If any part of the building is used as a 
permanent stable for animals, there shall be no avenue of communication 
within the building between the stable and the room used for the prepara- 
tion of the meats or meat products, but pens for animals about to be 
slaughtered may be maintained in connection with the slaughtering room. 
Manure from such stables or pens shall not be stored adjacent to the 
buildings used for slaughtering, storing or preparing meats or meat food 
products, nor at any place on the premises or in such a manner as to 
bring about insanitary conditions. 

4. All buildings used for such purposes, and for storing or selling 
meats or meat products, shall be properly fitted and equipped for the 
purpose used, and shall be so managed and cared for that the meats and 
meat products prepared therein may not be rendered unclean, unsound, 
unhealthful or unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food. 

(a) Floors shall be smooth and impervious and so laid that they will 
drain freely and rapidly into a drain and, when possible, this drain shall 
be connected with a sewer. No low or broken places beneath, or in 
which, fluid or solid refuse may lodge shall be allowed to exist. 

(6) Walls of rooms in which animals are slaughtered or meat stored 
shall be tight, smooth, free from projections or crevices for the ac- 
cumulation of filth, and shall be kept in a cleanly condition. Ceilings, 



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partitions and pillars shall also be kept clean by brushing, spraying or 
washing. Frequent whitewashing or painting of walls, ceilings, pillars 
and partitions is requested unless the same are painted or made of an 
impervious material. 

(c) All wagons, trucks, trays and other receptacles, all tables, 
chutes, platforms, racks, etc., and all knives, saws, cleavers, meat grinders, 
sausage fillers, scalding kettles and other tools, utensils and machinery 
used in slaughtering, moving, handling, cutting, chopping, mixing, canning, 
or other process, shall be thoroughly cleansed daily, if used. 

(d) Aprons, smocks or other clothing of employes coming in contact 
with meat shall be of material that is readily cleansed and made sanitary, 
and shall be kept clean. All employes who handle meats or meat products 
shall be required to keep their hands free from filthy or infectious matter. 

(e) All rooms in which meats or meat food products are prepared, 
stored, packed, canned, manufactured, or otherwise handled shall be 
lighted and ventilated in a manner acceptable to this Board or its agents, 
or the Dairy and Food Commissioner, or his agents, and shall be so located 
that odors from toilet rooms, catch basins, casings departments, tank 
rooms, offal or refuse heaps, hide cellars, etc., do not permeate them. 
All cooling and storage rooms or ice boxes shall, if possible, have a system 
of ventilation which permits the entrance of fresh clean air from outside 
the building. 

5. Rooms used for the slaughter of animals shall be thoroughly 
cleansed at the close of each day's work. All offal and other refuse 
shall be removed and the floors and walls shall be flushed and washed. 
Where water-pipe connections can be obtained they shall be equipped 
with faucets and hose sufficient for proper cleansing. Toilet facilities 
adequate for the cleanliness and convenience of the employes shall be 
provided and shall consist of water closets, urinals, wash basins, soap 
and clean towels. Such toilet rooms shall not communicate directly or 
indirectly with any rooms in which animals are killed or meats stored. 
The voiding of urine upon the floor of the slaughter house is prohibited. 

6. Suitable receptacles shall be provided for blood, offal and similar 
materials, and such materials shall be put into the offal tank, or, where 
such tank is not available, removed from the premises as soon as pos- 
sible, but under no circumstances shall they be permitted to accumulate 
for more than one day in summer or two days in winter. In no case shall 
they be permitted to accumulate in or around the slaughter house. The 

p feeding of hogs or other animals on uncooked offal and other slaughter 
house refuse shall not be permitted on the premises, and no use in- 
compatible with proper sanitation shall be made of any part of such 
premises. 

Receptacles and vehicles used for storing and transporting such 
materials shall be kept clean. Stomach and intestinal contents and 
other refuse shall not be allowed to accumulate on the floor of the slaugh- 
ter room and shall not be stored on the premises at any place or in such 
a manner as to render the conditions insanitary. 

Cribs or pens for the storage of bones shall not be located within 
or adjoining any building used for slaughtering, storing or preparing 
meats or meat food products, unless the walls are impervious and enclosed. 



76 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

Hides or pelts shall not be stored on the floor of any room used for 
slaughtering, storing or preparing meats or meat food products, but shall 
be stored in a room set apart for such purpose. 

7. Meats and meat food products intended for rendering into edible 
products must be prevented from falling on the floor or coming into 
contact with any dirty or disease-producing material. 

8. Persons afflicted with tuberculosis, or any other communicable 
disease shall not be employed, or work in any of the departments of 
establishments where carcasses are dressed, or meats handled or ex- 
posed for sale, and any employe showing evidence of being so affected 
shall be reported to the State Live Stock Sanitary Board and to the 
manager or owner of the establishment by any agent of the Board or any 
local meat inspector appointed by authority of the Board who may 
discover the condition. 

Storage and Transportation of Carcasses. — 9. Carcasses must not 
be permitted to hang in the slaughtering room longer than necessary, 
but shall be removed promptly to the cooling room to be kept under 
proper refrigeration. 

Dressed carcasses shall not be transported on the public highways, 
exposed to contamination by street dust and insects. Vehicles for the 
conveyance of such carcasses shall be covered or shall be provided with 
wrappers of canvas, or equally satisfactory material, in which the 
carcasses shall be completely enveloped while in transit, and such 
wrappers shall be kept clean. Carcasses, or parts of carcasses or meat 
products shall not be allowed to hang or remain outside of markets, shops 
or stores exposed in such a manner as to become contaminated by dust 
or dirt. 

10. Carcasses or parts of carcasses shall not be inflated with air 
blown from the mouth or otherwise. Skewers shall not be held in the 
mouth previous to inserting them in carcasses or parts of carcasses. 

When Diseased Carcasses are Dressed. — 11. Butchers who may have 
dressed diseased carcasses shall cleanse their hands of all grease and then 
immerse them in a prescribed disinfectant, and then rinse them in clear 
water before engaging again in dressing or handling healthy carcasses. 
All butcher's implements that have been used in dressing diseased car- 
casses shall be cleansed of all grease and then sterilized either in boiling 
water or by immersion in a prescribed disinfectant, and rinsed in clear 
water, before being again used in dressing healthy carcasses. 

The premises on which diseased animals may have been killed shall be 
thoroughly cleansed, and, if necessary, they shall be disinfected, as 
required by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, an agent of the same, 
or any local meat inspector appointed by authority of the Board. 

12. Separate trucks, etc., shall be furnished for handling diseased car- 
casses and parts. Following the slaughter of an animal affected with 
an infectious disease a stop shall be made until the implements have 
been cleansed and disinfected, unless another set of clean implements 
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Cleanliness of Establishments. — 13. All parts of establishments used 
for slaughtering-, packing-, canning, manufacturing or storing meats or 
meat products, and the stables and pens used for live stock shall be kept 
in a cleanly, wholesome condition. They shall be especially cleansed and 
scrubbed and disinfected, and painted or whitewashed when required 
by authority of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, an agent of the 
same or any local meat inspector appointed by the authority of the Board. 

Duties and Authority of Agents of the Board. — 14. Agents of the 
State Live Stock Sanitary Board are authorized by law to make examina- 
tions of slaughtering, packing, meat canning, rendering, or similar 
establishments, and of places where meats or meat food products are man- 
ufactured, prepared, stored or sold, for the purpose of ascertaining whether 
the said establishments or places are constructed, arranged, equipped, 
managed or cared for in such a way as injuriously to affect the sound- 
ness, healthfulness or wholesomeness, or otherwise to render unfit for 
human food, the meat or meat food products therein prepared, stored, 
or sold. 

Defects in Establishments. — 15. Whenever an establishment, or the 
manner in which it is arrang-ed, equipped, or cared for, shall be found to 
be defective in such particulars as to make it probable that, by virtue of 
such defect or defects, the meats or meat food products may be rendered 
unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human food, it 
shall be the duty of the agent of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board to 
notify the owner, occupier or manager thereof as to the nature of the par- 
ticular defects found, and report the same to the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board. 

Penalty for Failure to Remedy Defects. — 16. In case such defects are 
not removed or abolished within the time designated by the State Live 
Stock Sanitary Board, after notice in writing from the Board, the said 
establishment or place may be closed; and the owner, occupier, or manager 
thereof, and all other persons, forbidden to use the said establishment or 
place for the preparation, storage, or sale of meats or meat food products 
until the said defect is remedied, removed, or abolished in a way that 
is approved by an authorized agent of the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board. 

Disposal of Condemned Meats or Meat Products. — 17. Agents of the 
State Live Stock Sanitary Board are also authorized to examine, in any 
way that may be necessary, any animals, meats or meat food products 
found in such establishments, for the purpose of determining whether 
such animals, meats or meat products are mature or may be made into 
sound, wholesome and healthful human food. Animals, carcasses or 
parts thereof, that are immature, unsound, unhealthful, unwholesome 
or otherwise unfit for human food, shall be rejected or condemned, and 
said animals, carcasses, or parts or products thereof, shall be treated 
and disposed of as follows: 

(a) Where an offal tank is immediately available, the lower open- 
ing shall be first sealed by an agent of the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board or an authorized local meat inspector, then the condemned car- 
casses, parts, or meat food products shall be placed therein, in the presence 



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of such agent or local meat inspector, after which the upper opening- 
shall be sealed by the said agent or local inspector, whose duty it shall be 
to see that a sufficient force of steam is turned into the tank and 
maintained a sufficient time to render the contents unfit for any edible 
product. Tanks for this purpose shall be so located that the fumes and 
odors therefrom shall not prevade the rooms in which carcasses are 
dressed or stored, or meat food products prepared. 

(b) Where an offal tank is not available the condemned carcasses, 
parts or meat products shall be treated in such manner that will render 
them unfit for food purposes. 

Method of Disposing of Suspected Animals. — 18, Any cattle, sheep, 
swine or goats showing symptoms or suspected of being immature or 
of being affected with any disease or condition which under these regu- 
lations would probably cause their condemnation when slaughtered, shall 
be marked at the time of examination by affixing to the ear a numbered 
metal tag bearing the words "Oregon (number) Quarantined," and said tag 
shall remain on the animal until it is slaughtered. No animal so marked 
or tagged shall be slaughtered for meat or be rendered into meat food pro- 
ducts, (within the indicated period of quarantine; nor until the State Live 
Stock Sanitary Board, or an agent thereof, or an authorized local meat in- 
spector, shall duly certify that the condition or cause necessitating quaran- 
tine has been removed, nor shall any immature or other animals, quaran- 
tined as aforesaid, be, at any time, removed, upon any pretense whatso- 
ever from the place, stable, stall, building or enclosure wherein such ani- 
mal has been quarantined, without the written permit or consent of the 
Board or an agent thereof, and then only upon such reasonable terms and 
conditions as to the future supervision and inspection as the Board, or its 
agent, may impose.) 

Any agent affixing such tag to an animal shall make a report of the 
number of the same together with a description of the animal, the 
location of the same and the name of the owner and his address, to the 
Live Stock Sanitary Board and any agent of this Board or authorized 
local meat inspector supervising the slaughter of such an animal 
shall send the tag to the State Live Stock Sanitary Board with a report 
of the conditions found and the dispositions made of the carcass and 
other parts. 

Authority of Agents to Enter Establishments or Premises. — 19. Agents 
of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board are authorized, without let or 
hinderance, to enter upon any premises, or to enter any place, building, 
vehicle, or vessel used for the storage, preparation or transportation of 
animals, or their products, for the purposes of making such examinations 
as are defined in these regulations. 

Local Meat Inspectors. — 20. Whenever any city of the second class, 
shall appoint and provide for the compensation of local meat inspectors 
the qualifications of such local meat inspectors, if found satisfactory, shall 
be certified by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board and they shall then 
have the same authority and duties as are by law conferred on agents of 
the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, and shall be subject to these 
rules and regulations. Such certificates of qualification may be with- 
drawn or revoked at any time by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, 



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for incompetency or neglect of duty. Local meat inspectors shall have 
jurisdiction only within the limits of the city of the second class, by and 
for which they are appointed. Such local meat inspectors shall not be 
governed by ordinances, rules or regulations that are incompatible with 
or that conflict with these rules and regulation of the State Live Stock 
Sanitary Board or the law under which they are made. 

Appointment of Local Agents for Establishments. — 21. Upon the 
written application of owners or managers of such establishments the 
State Live Stock Sanitary Board will appoint local agents to make 
complete examination of all animals, carcasses, meats, and meat food pro- 
ducts, used, prepared, or stored in local slaughtering, packing, canning, 
rendering, or similar establishments, and to affix an approved stamp or 
mark to the meats and meat food products that are found to be sound, 
healthful, wholesome and fit for human food. 

(With the limited staff at its disposal, the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board will be unable to arrange for the supervision of individual estab- 
lishments and for the complete examination and stamping or marking 
of all the meats or meat food products prepared therein, except as pro- 
vided in this rule.) 

The meats and meat food products that are found to be unsound, un- 
healthful, unwholesome, or otherwise unfit for human food, shall be 
rejected or condemned, and disposed of as provided in these regulations. 
Such agents shall report to and they may be transferred or dismissed 
by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board. They shall be subject to the 
regulations governing, and for the guidance of, agents of the State 
Live Stock Sanitary Board, and to the law under which they are made. 

The funds for the compensation of such local agents shall be fur- 
nished by the owner or manager of the establishment that such agent 
is appointed to oversee, and upon whose request this form of inspection 
is established. The funds for the payment of such local agents shall 
be deposited by the owner or manager of such establishment to his own 
credit, in some bank or trust company to be designated by the State Live 
Stock Sanitary Board, and shall be paid out upon the cheque of such 
owner or manager, payable to the order of the local agent entitled to 
compensation, after the bill of such local agent for services has been 
approved by the authority of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, and 
the cheque so drawn for said compensation has been approved by authority 
of said Board. Employes of the United "States Department of Agriculture, 
engaged in the inspection of animals, meats and meat food products, may 
be appointed agents of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, and be clothed 
with the powers of such agents: Provided, however, that such employes 
of the United States Department of Agriculture shall receive no pay 
or compensation for such services as agents of the State Live Stock 
Sanitary Board. 

Misuse of Stamps or Marks. — 22. No person shall make, duplicate, 
reproduce, forge or counterfeit any stamp, certificate, mark or emblem, 
used or authorized to be used by the State Live Stock Sanitary Board 
for marking or designating animals, carcasses, meats, or meat food 
products, that have been approved or condemned; and no such stamp, 



80 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

certificate, mark or emblem, used or authorized to be used by the State 
Live Stock Sanitary Board, shall be used or employed without specific 
authority so to do from the State Live Stock Sanitary Board. 

Laboratory Diagnosis. — 23. Agents of the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board and authorized local meat inspectors shall forward specimens from 
any case of any unusual or peculiar disease that may be encountered in 
the course of their work to the laboratory of the Veterinary Depart- 
ment of the Oregon Agricultural College. 

Bribery. — 24. Any agent of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, or 
any local meat inspector appointed by authority of the said Board, or 
any local meat inspector appointed by any City cf the second class, 
who shall pass or approve any meat or meat food products that is un- 
sound, unhealthful, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human food, 
or who shall fail to perform his duties as prescribed by the law relating 
to the same, or who shall accept any money, gift or other thing of value 
from any person, firm, or corporation, or officers, agents or employes 
thereof, with intent to influence his official action, shall be summarily 
discharged from office, and shall be prosecuted as provided by law. 

25. Any person, firm or corporation, or any agent or employe of any 
person, firm or corporation, who shall give, pay or offer, directly or in- 
directly, to any agent, officer or inspector authorized to perform any of 
the duties prescribed by the rules and regulations of the State Live 
Stock Sanitary Board, or the law under which they are made, any money 
or other thing of value, with intent to influence said agent, officer or 
inspector in the discharge of any duty thei - ein provided for, shall be 
prosecuted as provided by law. 

Sale or Transportation of Unsound or Unwholesome Meat. — 26. If 
any person shall sell or offer for sale, or offer for transportation to 
market, any meat or meat food product which is diseased, unsound, 
unhealthful, unwholesome or otherwise unfit for human food, knowing 
that such meat or meat food product is intended for human consumption, 
he shall be prosecuted as provided by law. 

Examination of Animals, Dressed Carcasses, Meat Food Products, 
Etc. — In establishments where, as provided in rule 21 of these rules and 
regulations, a local agent is stationed to examine all animals slaughtered 
and all meats and meat food products prepared therein, the examination, 
slaughter, preparation, marking and storing of all carcasses, parts or 
organs, and the disposal of all diseased carcasses, parts, or organs, shall 
be conducted in accordance with the following rules and regulations. 
The terms "establishment at which complete inspection is maintained" 
refers to such establishments. These rules and regulations shall also 
apply to all establishments where meats or meat food products are pre- 
pared or stored and shall be enforced by agents of the State Live 
Stock Sanitary Board wherever they are present to conduct such exam- 
ination, but the absence of such agent shall not be an excuse for the prep- 
aration or sale of unsound, unhealthful or unwholesome meat or meat 
food products, or for disregard of these regulations or of the law relating - 
to meat hygiene. 



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Ante-mortem Examination. — 28. An ante-mortem examination shall 
be made of all cattle, sheep, swine and goats about to be slaughtered 
before they shall be allowed to enter the slaughtering room of an establish- 
ment at which complete inspection is maintained. Such examination shall 
be made in pens, alleys or chutes of the establishment at which the ani- 
mals are to be slaughtered. Owners or managers of such establishments 
shall provide satisfactory facilities for conducting such examinations 
and for separating or holding apax ; t from healthy animals those showing 
symptoms of disease. All animals showing symptoms or suspected of 
being immature or of being affected with any disease or condition which, 
under these regulations, would probably cause their condemnation when 
slaughtered shall be marked by affixing to the ear a metal tag as pro- 
vided in rule 18 of these regulations, and a notice of quarantine served 
on the owner. All such animals, except as hereinafter provided, shall 
be slaughtered separately, either before regular slaughter has commenced 
or at the close of the regular slaughter, and shall be duly identified by 
a representative of the establishment to the agent of the State Live Stock 
Sanitary Board or authorized local meat inspector on duty in the 
slaughter room before the skins are removed or the carcasses opened for 
evisceration. Reports on such animals shall be made by the agent or 
local meat inspector as provided in rule 18. Animals tagged for immatur- 
ity or pregnancy, which have not been exposed to any contagious or in- 
fectious disease, are not required to be slaughtered, but before any such 
animals are removed from the establishment the tag shall be detached 
by the agent or local meat inspector on duty in said establishment and 
returned with his report to the State Live Stock Sanitary Board. Ani- 
mals commonly termed "downers" or crippled animals, shall be tagged, 
as provided in rule 18, in the abattoir pens for the purpose of identifica- 
tion at the time of slaughter, and shall be passed upon in accordance with 
these regulations. 

Postmortem Examination. — 29. The agent or local meat inspector on 
duty in the establishment shall make a careful examination of all animals 
at the time of slaughter. The head, tail, thymus gland, bladder, omentum, 
and the entire viscera, and all parts and blood used in the preparation of 
meat food products, shall be retained in such manner as to preserve their 
identity until after the post-mortem examination has been completed, 
in order that they may be identified in case of condemnation of the car- 
cass. Suitable racks or metal receptacles shall be provided for retaining 
such parts. 

Each establishment at which complete inspection is maintained shall 
be given an official number, and shall be indicated by said number on 
all official reports, stamps, marks, labels, etc. 

Carcasses and parts thereof found to be sound, healthful, wholesome 
and fit for human food shall be passed, and in establishments where 
complete inspection is maintained they shall be stamped or marked by 
an agent of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board as follows: 

Upon each dressed beef carcass examined as above and passed there 
shall be placed by an authorized representative of the State Live Stock 
Sanitary Board at the time of examination ten stamps or marks bearing 
the words "Inspected and Passed. Oregon State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board," and the official number of the establishment, or the veteri- 
narian's name who made the inspection. 



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Upon the dressed carcasses of sheep, swine and goats examined as 
above and passed there shall be placed by an authorized representative 
of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board at the time of examination, a 
stamp or mark on each quarter bearing- the words "Inspected and Passed. 
Oregon State Live Stock Sanitary Board," and the official number of the 
establishment, or the veterinarian's name who made the inspection. 

Should any lesion of disease or other condition that would probably 
render the carcass, or part or organ, unfit for food purposes be found 
on post-mortem examination, such carcass, part, or organ, shall be marked 
immediately with a tag bearing the words "Condemned. Oregon State 
Live Stock Sanitary Board." Carcasses, parts, or organs, so marked shall 
not be washed or trimmed and should not be placed in the cooling room 
or in the refrigerator or ice box with carcasses, parts or organs that have 
been passed. Such carcasses shall be promptly disposed of as provided in 
rule 17 of these regulations. 

30. The carcasses, parts or organs, of all animals which are slaughtered 
at an establishment where complete inspection is maintained, and which 
are found at time of slaughter or at any subsequent examination to be 
affected with any of the diseases or conditions named below, and all 
carcasses, parts or organs, found to be so affected in any establishment 
examined, shall be disposed of according to the section of this rule per- 
taining to the disease or condition existing. As it is impracticable to 
formulate rules covering every case and to designate at which particlar 
stage a condition becomes loathsome or a disease noxious, it is to be under- 
stood that the decision as to the disposal of all carcasses, parts or organs, 
not specifically covered by these regulations shall be left to the dis- 
cretion of the veterinarian making the examination, the decision in such 
cases to be based upon the nature, location and extent of the patho- 
logical conditions present and upon the principles of meat inspection as 
prescribed by Ostertag and other authorities. 

(a) Anthrax. — All carcasses showing lesions of anthrax, regardless 
of the extent of the disease, shall be condemned and immediately tanked, 
as provided in rule 17, or properly buried or burned, including the blood, 
hide, hoofs, horns, viscera and all other portions of the animal. The place 
where the animal was slaughtered shall be disinfected with a 10 per cent 
solution of formalin and all tools, implements, etc., which have come 
in contact with the carcass, shall be treated as provided in rule 11. 

(/>) Blackleg. — Carcasses of animals showing lesions of blackleg 
shall be condemned. 

(c) Hemorrhagic Septicemia. — Carcasses of animals affected with 
hemorrhagic septicemia shall be condemned. 

(d) Pyemia and Sept icemia.— Carcasses showing lesions either of 
pyemia or septicemia shall be condemned. 

(<?) Rabies. — Carcasses of animals which showed symptoms of rabies 
before slaughter shall be condemned. 

(/') Tetanus. — Carcasses of animals which showed symptoms of 
tetanus before slaughter shall be condemned. 

(g) Malignant Epizootic Catarrh. — Carcasses of animals affected with 
malignant epizootic catarrh and showing generalized inflamation of the 
mucous membranes shall be condemned. 



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(h) Hog Cholera and Swine Plaque. — Carcasses showing general- 
ized or extensive lesions of hog cholera or swine plague, and carcasses 
affected with either of these diseases and showing febrile changes shall 
be condemned. All organs or parts showing lesions of either disease shall 
be condemned. 

(i) Actinomycocis, or Lumpy Jaw. — Carcasses affected with actin- 
omycosis, showing generalized or extensive localized lesions, or showing 
malnutrition in addition to the actinomycotic lesions shall be condemned. 
All organs or parts showing lessions of the disease shall be condemned. 

(;') Caseous Lymphadentitis. — Carcasses showing extensive lesions 
of this disease in the lungs with or without pleuritic adhesions, or 
caseous nodules in several of the visceral organs with emaciation, shall 
be condemned. 

(k) Tuberculosis. — Carcasses, parts or organs affected with this 
disease shall be disposed of as follows: 

A. The entire Carcass shall be condemned : 

1. When lesions of tuberculosis exist in the musculature or in other 
structures that may be eaten with flesh, and when it is not evident that the 
lesions are purely local and may be completely removed. 

2. When there is evidence that tuberculosis bacilli have been carried 
by the blood. 

3. When there are extensive and acutely progressive lesions, even 
though they be local. 

4. When there is evidence of tuberculosis intoxication or associated 
septic infections. 

5. When it was observed before the animal was killed that it was 
suffering with fever. 

6. When there is a tuberculosis cachexia, as shown by anemia and 
emaciation. 

B. An organ or part of a carcass shall be condemned. 

1. When it contains a lesion of tuberculosis. 

2. When it contains, has been attacked or has been contaminated 
with tubercle bacilli. 

{I) Texas Fever. — Carcasses showing sufficient lesions to warrant 
the diagnosis of Texas fever shall be condemned. 

(rn) Parotitic Ictero-hematuria. — Carcasses of sheep affected with 
parastic ictero-hematuria shall be condemned. 

(n) Mange, or Scab. — Carcasses of animals affected with mange, or 
scab, in advanced stages, shall be condemned. 

(o) Tapeworm Cysts. — Carcasses of animals extensively affected 
with tapeworm cysts shall be disposed of in accordance with the rules 
and regulations of the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States De- 
partment of Agriculture. 

(p) Pneumonia, Pleurisy, Enteritis Peritonitis and Metritis. — Car- 
casses showing generalized inflammation of one of the following tissues: 
The lungs, pleura, intestines, peritoneum, or the uterus, whether in acute 
or chronic form, shall be condemned. 



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(q) Icterus. — 'Carcasses showing an intense yellow or greenish-yellow 
discoloration, after proper cooling, shall be condemned. Carcasses which 
exhibit a yellowish tint directly after slaughter, but lose this discoloration 
on chilling, may be passed for food. 

(r) Uremia and Sexual Odor. — Carcasses which give off the odor of 
urine or sexual odor shall be condemned. 

(s) Urticaria, Etc. — Hogs affected with urticaria (diamond skin 
disease) , Tinea tonsurans, Demodex folliculorum, or erythema, may be 
passed after detaching and condemning the cut out diseased portion of 
skin, if the carcass is otherwise fit for food. 

(t) Infections That May Cause Meat Poisoning. — All Carcasses of 
animals so affected that consumption of the meat or meat food products 
thereof may give rise to meat poisoning shall be condemned. This covers 
all carcasses showing signs of septicemia or pyemia, whether puerperal, 
traumatic, or without any evident cause; hemorrhagic or gangrenous 
enteritis or gastritis; acute inflamation of the lungs, pleura, pericardium, 
peritoneum, or meninges, acute, diffuse metritis, or mammitis; polyar- 
thitis; phlebitis of the umbilical veins; traumatic pericarditis; and any 
inflammation, abscess or suppurating sore, if associated with acute neph- 
ritis, fatty and degenerated liver, marked pulmonary hyperemia, and 
diffuse redness of the skin, either singly or in combination. 

Immediately after slaughter of any animal so diseased, the premises 
and implements used must be thoroughly disinfected as prescribed in 
rule 11. 

The part of any carcass coming in contact with the carcass or any 
part of the carcass of any animal covered by this section, or with the 
place where such animal was slaughtered, or with the implements used 
in the slaughter, before thorough disinfection of such places and imple- 
ments has been accomplished or with any other contaminated object, shall 
be condemned; in case the contaminated part is not removed from the 
carcass within two hours after such contact, the whole carcass shall be 
condemned. 

(u) Tumors. — Any organ or part of a carcass which is the seat of a 
tumor, malignant or benign, shall be condemned. 

(v) Melanosis, Pseudoleukemia. — Carcasses of animals showing any 
disease such as generalized melanosis, pseudoleukemia, etc., which affects 
the system of the animals, shall be condemned. 

(w) Flukes. — Any organ (lungs, liver, spleen, etc.), or part of a 
carcass, which is affected with flukes (Trematoda) shall be condemned. 

(%) Emaciation and Anemia.— Carcasses of animals too emaciated or 
anemic to produce wholesome meat and those carcasses which show a slimy 
degeneration of the fat or a serous infiltration of the muscles shall be 
condemned. 

(y) Pregnancy and Parturition. — Carcasses of animals in advanced 
stages of pregnancy (showing signs or preparation for parturition), also 
carcasses of animals which have within ten days given birth to young 
and in which there is no evidence of septic infection, may be rendered 
into lard, or tallow if desired by the manager of the establishment, 
otherwise they shall be condemned. 



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(z) Immaturity. — Carcasses of animals too immature to produce 
wholesome meat, all unborn and stillborn animals, also carcasses of calves, 
pigs, kids, and lambs, under three weeks of age shall be condemned. 

(aa) Dead Animals. — All animals that die in slaughter house pens, 
and those in a dying condition before slaughter, shall be condemned. 
Animals which have died shall not be allowed to pass through compart- 
ments in which food products are prepared. No dead animals shall be 
brought into an establishment for rendering from outside the premises 
of such establishment. 

(ab) Bruised Parts. — When a portion of a carcass is to be condemned 
on account of slight bruises, which can not be properly removed until the 
carcass is chilled, the carcass shall be tagged and hung up apart from 
sound carcasses, perferably in a special retaining room. After chilling, the 
affected portion shall be cut out, marked "Condemned. Oregon Live Stock 
Sanitary Board," and the remainder of the carcass shall be marked 
"Examined and passed. Oregon Live Stock Sanitary Board." 

(ac) Owing to the fact that parasites are usually present in hog 
lungs also dirt and other foreign matter introduced through inhalation, 
and dirty water from scalding vats, these organs are rendered unfit for 
use in meat food products, and it has been found impracticable to clean 
or separate the objectionable portions. It will, therefore, not be per- 
missible to use hog lungs in meat food products and they shall be con- 
demned. 

31. All processes used in curing, pickling, preparing, or canning 
meats and meat food products in establishments where complete in- 
spection is maintained shall be supervised by a representative of the State 
Live Stock Sanitary Board, or the State Dairy and Food Commissioner, 
and no fixtures or appliances, such as tables, trucks, trays, vats, machines, 
implements, cans or containers of any kind, shall be used in such establish- 
ment, or in any other, unless they are clean and sanitary, and all steps 
in the process of manufacture shall be conducted carefully and with 
strict cleanliness. 

32. Carcasses of swine shall be condemned for hog cholera or swine 
plague. 

(a) When the carcass shows well marked and progressive lesions 
in any organ or tissue. 

(b) When the carcass is that of an animal which plainly showed 
symptoms of either disease on ante-mortem inspection. 

(c) When the carcass is that of an animal which had a temperature 
106 degrees F. or higher and which was of a lot in which symptoms of 
either disease were apparent. Provided, that in case of doubt as to the 
cause of high temperature the animal after being marked for identifi- 
cation, may be held for a reasonable time by the owner under the 
supervision of the inspector for further observation and taking of 
temperature. 

Carcasses of animals which did not show on ante-mortem inspection 
the symptoms or temparture mentioned in paragraph 1 (6) and (c) of 
this section may be passed for lard when the lesions found on post-mortem 



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inspection are not sufficiently well marked and progressive to warrant 
their condemnation under paragraph 1 (a) of this section. 

33. Whenever any city of the second class shall appoint and provide 
for the compensation of local prosecutors, who may be authorized to 
bring suit for the violation of an ordinance, rule or regulation of any city 
of the second class, concerning meat hygiene service, the construction, 
care and management of slaughtering establishments, or prohibiting 
the keeping of hogs or pigs upon premises adjacent to any slaughter house 
if found satisfactory shall be certified by the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board, and they shall then have the same authority and duties as are by 
law conferred upon agents of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board, and 
shall be subject to these rules and regulations. Such certificates of 
qualification may be withdrawn or revoked at any time by the State 
Live Stock Sanitary Board, for incompetency, or neglect of duty, and in 
any event shall have jurisdiction only within the limits of the city of the 
second class, by and for which they are appointed. If any city of the 
second class shall neglect or refuse to appoint any such local prosecutor, 
or shall neglect or refuse to authorize any duly appointed local prosecutor 
to institute legal proceeding to enforce any of its said ordinances, rules and 
regulations, then, in that event the agents of the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board or the agents of the State Dairy and Food Commissioner shall have 
the right to enforce the same under the provisions of said ordinances, 
rules and regulations; provided, however, that any of the agents of the 
State Live Stock Sanitary Board or State Dairy and Food Commissioner 
are first legally authorized to prosecute the same. 



34. A triangular shaped stamp con- 
taining the words "Insp'd and Ps'd, Ore- 
gon State Live Stock Sanitary Board," or 
its abbreviations and the official abattoir 
number or veterinarian's name is hereby 
declared to be the officially adopted and 
recognized meat inspection stamp of the 
state of Oregon. 




" OREGON 

S. L. S. S. 

BOARD 

W. H. LYTLE 




Regulations adopted by the Oregon State Live Stock Sanitary Board, 

April 27, 1917 



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Part V 
TUBERCULIN TEST AND PASTEURIZATION LAW 

Chapter 332, Laws of 1917 

Section 1. That for the purpose of this act, milk shall be construed 
to include cream; and milk products shall inculde butter, cheese, ice 
cream, condensed milk, evaporated cream, ice milk, skim milk, butter 
milk and whey. 

Section 2. That from and after September 1, 1917, it shall be un- 
lawful for any person, firm, company, corporation or association to sell 
or exchange or offer or expose for sale or exchange for human con- 
sumption any milk from cows that have not passed the tuberculin test, 
unless such milk shall have been pasteurized as hereinafter provided. 
It is understood and hereby expressly stated that nothing in this section 
shall apply to the delivery of milk or cream to creameries or cheese or 
condensed milk factories by the producer of such milk or cream, or in 
bulk to the wholesale trade. 

Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company, cor- 
poration or association to deliver, exchange, sell or offer or expose for 
delivery, exchange or sale any milk product made from milk, except 
cheese, from cows that have not passed the tuberculin test, unless such 
milk product, before, during or subsequent to any manufacturing process 
used to produce such milk product, shall have been pasteurized as pro- 
vided in this act. 

Section 4. The process of pasteurization as applied to milk, and milk 
products, is hereby defined to be a thermal process for the elimination 
therefrom of bacteria or germ life, which process shall consist of uni- 
formly heating such milk or milk products to a temperature of not less 
than 140 degrees F., and of holding the same at the said temperature for a 
period of not less than thirty minutes, and immediately thereafter of 
cooling the same to a temperature of not above fifty degrees F. ; or by 
heating said milk or milk products, as the case may be, to a tempeature 
of not less than 180 degrees F. and immediately thereafter cooling the 
same to a temperature of not above fifty degrees F. ; provided, however, 
that when cream is pasteurized to be used and is used in the manufacture 
of butter, or when milk is pasteurized to be used and is used in the 
manufacture of a milk product, and where the process of manufacture, 
in either case, is to begin immediately, then it shall not be required 
that such cream or milk be cooled to a lower temperature than is 
necessary for such manufacturing process. 

Section 5. All pasteurized cream or milk used in the manufacture 
of pasteurized butter or milk products, shall be pasteurized at and in 
the plant where such butter or milk products, as the case may be, is 
manufactured therefrom. Repasteurization of milk is hereby expressly 
forbidden. 

Section 6. It shall be unlawful for any person, company, corporation 
or association, to sell, exchange or deliver or have in his or its possession 
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the manufacture of such milk product marked or in any manner indicated 
to be pasteurized that shall not have been pasteurized as hereinbefore 
specified. 

Section 7. It shall be the duty of the Dairy and Food Commissioner 
to provide such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry the 
provisions of this act into effect; and it shall be unlawful to violate 
any such rule or regulation. 

Section 8. Milk from any cow or cows whose owner or lessee shall 
apply to the State Live Stock Sanitary Board to have such cow or cows 
tuberculin tested, shall be exempt from all of the provisions of this act 
until such cows shall have been tested. 

Section 9. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this 
act, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than ten dollars 
($10), nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), for each violation 
thereof. Any company, corporation or association violating any of the 
provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of not less than ten 
dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), for each 
violation, and any officer or agent who shall direct, conceal,, perform or 
omit to perform such act in violation of any of the provisions of this 
act, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10) 
nor more than one hundred dollars, ($100) for each violation thereof. 
All penalties imposed for violation of any of the provisions of this act 
shall be recovered by an action at law by the state. 

Section 10. Justice courts, district courts and municipal courts sitting 
as justice courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts 
of all prosecutions arising under this act. The district attorney or county 
attorney is authorized to institute prosecutions for violations of this act 
by information or the same may be instituted by indictment or by com- 
plaint verified before any magistrate. 



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Part VI 

TILLAMOOK COUNTY DAIRY HERD INSPECTION LAW 

Chapter 146, Laws of 1917, Amended by Chapter 321, Laws of 1919 

Section 1. There is hereby created for and in Tillamook county, 
State of Oregon, the office of Tillamook County Dairy Herd Inspector. 
Said inspector shall be appointed within sixty days from the taking- 
effect of this act, by the county court of Tillamook county, Oregon, 
with the approval of the State Veterinarian of Oregon, and he shall hold 
office during the pleasure of said county court, and may be removed 
for cause at any time by said county court, in which case said county court 
shall immediately appoint another qualified person to such office. 

Section 2. Said Tillamook County Dairy Herd Inspector shall receive 
a salary to be fixed by the county court of Tillamook county, but not to 
exceed ten dollars per day for the time actually employed in performing 
his duties hereunder, to be paid from the general fund of said county in 
the manner that other county officers of said county are now paid, and he 
shall be a competent and qualified graduate, in good standing of a recog- 
nized veterinary college having a course of not less than three years, 
embracing terms of not less than six months a year, and he shall devote 
such time as may be necessary in the performance of the duties of his 
office, and shall reside during his term, in said Tillamook county, Oregon, 
and he shall receive no other compensation whatever for his said services, 
but his salary herein provided for shall cover all his traveling and other 
expenses. The county court may with approval of the State Veterinarian 
appoint such assistants to said inspector as may be necessary to complete 
the inspection as in this act provided for; such assistants to receive such 
compensation as may be fixed by the court, but not to exceed the rate 
allowable to said inspector. 

Section 3. It shall be the duty of said inspector to inspect the dairy 
herds of Tillamook county, Oregon, in such manner as approved by the 
State Live Stock Sanitary Board as to most effectually eradicate bovine 
tuberculosis and contagious, infectious and communicable diseases of 
dairy animals from said county, and he shall have the full power and the 
duties of a deputy state veterinarian within said Tillamook county, Ore- 
gon. He shall collect a fee of fifteen cents per head for each and every 
cow inspected by him, and shall receipt therefor to the owner of said 
herd, and shall keep an accurate account thereof, and on or before the 
tenth day of each month turn the moneys so collected in to the county 
treasurer of said Tillamook county, Oregon, for the use and benefit of 
the general fund of said county, and he shall, within ten days after the 
inspection of any herd, deliver a certificate of health to the owner 
covering such animals as did not show a suspicious or positive reaction to 
the tuberculin test or present clinical evidence of tuberculosis. Such 
certificate shall give the description of the animal certified to and shall 
cover such particulars as age, sex, breed, temperature records, result 
of test or other information that the State Live Stock Sanitary Board 
shall demand. The said Tillamook County Dairy Herd Inspector shall 
at all times work under the direction of the State Live Stock Sanitary 
Board and shall be governed by its rules and the provisions of chapter 



90 OREGON LAWS AND REGULATIONS 

14, Laws of 1913, creating said Board. He shall, within Tillamook County, 
possess the full powers of the above act creating the said Board, and the 
rules and regulations of said Board given to a deputy state veterinarian, 
but he shall not be entitled to claim reimbursement from the state for any 
services rendered or expenses incurred, and his appointment shall at any 
time be revocable by the Board. 

He shall make a monthly report of all his work done in said county 
and state, setting forth in a concise manner a detailed account of his 
actions as Dairy Herd Inspector of Tillamook county, Oregon. 

Such inspection of the dairy herds of Tillamook county shall commence 
on or after October 15, 1919 and be completed within one year from said 
date, and a like inspection shall be made by said inspector annually there- 
after so that each cow, heifer and bull over one year old in said county 
shall be inspected at least once in each twelve months' period. 

One copy of said report to be filed with the State Veterinarian, 
and one copy to be filed with the county court of said county, and one 
copy to be retained and kept by said inspector. Said reports to be so 
made and filed on or before the tenth day of each month next succeeding 
that during which inspection was made. 

Said inspector shall have the right and authority to enter the premises 
where the animal subject to inspection hereunder may be, and make such 
use of said premises as may be necessary to make the inspection herein 
provided for, and it shall be the duty of the person in charge of any such 
animal so being inspected to render said inspector or his assistants, such 
assistance as may be required in carrying out said work. 

Section 4. Said Tillamook County Dairy Herd Inspector shall, before 
entering upon the duties of his office, give a bond to Tillamook county, 
Oregon, in the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, conditioned for the 
faithful performance of his duties as hereinbefore provided. 

Section 5. Any person who obstructs or interferes with the Tillamook 
County Dairy Herd Inspector in the performance of his duties, or who 
refuses to render him assistance, as hereinbefore provided, shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished 
by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dollars, 
and costs of the action, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less 
than twenty-five days nor more than six months, or both such fine and 
imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; in case of fine that he be 
imprisoned in the county jail until such fine and costs of action be paid, 
and he shall be credited on such fine and costs the sum of two dollars 
for each day imprisoned. [Chapter 321, laws of 1919.] 



R ELATING TO LIVE STOCK SANITATION 93, 

Part VII 
COUNTY DAIRY HERD AND MEAT INSPECTION LAW 

Chapter 383, Laws of 1919 

Section 1. There is hereby created for and in the several counties 
of the state of Oregon, excepting Tillamook county, Oregon, the office of 
county meat and herd inspector. Said inspector may be appointed in 
the counties electing to appoint such inspector, within sixty days from 
the taking effect of this act, by the county courts of the several counties 
of the state of Oregon, excepting Tillamook county, Oregon, with the 
approval of the State Veterinarian of Oregon, and such officer shall 
hold office during the pleasure of said county court, and may be removed 
for cause at any time by said county court, in which case said county 
court may immediately appoint another qualified person to such office. 

Section 2. Said county meat and herd inspector shall receive a per 
diem to be fixed by the county courts of the several counties of the state 
of Oregon, but not to exceed ten dollars ($10) per day for the time 
actually employed in performing his duties hereunder, to be paid from the 
general fund of the several counties of the state of Oregon, in the manner 
that other county officers of the several counties of the state of Oregon 
are now paid, and he shall be a competent and qualified graduate in good 
standing of a recognized veterinary college having a course of not less than 
two years, embracing terms of not less than six months a year, and he shall 
devote such time as may be necessary in the performance of the duties of 
his office, and shall reside, during his term, in the county of the state of 
Oregon for which he is appointed county meat and herd inspector, and 
he shall receive no other compensation whatever for his said services, 
but •his per diem herein provided for shall cover all his traveling and 
other expenses. The county courts of the several counties of the state of 
Oregon may, with the approval of the state veterinarian, appoint such 
assistants to said inspector as may be necessary to complete the inspection 
as in this act provided for, such assistants to receive such compensation 
as may be fixed by the court, but not to exceed the rate allowable to said 
inspector. 

Section 3. It shall be the duty of said inspector to inspect the dairy 
and purebred breeding herds of the county in such manner as approved 
by the "State Live Stock Sanitary Board" as to most effectually eradicate 
bovine tuberculosis and other diseases of live stock, and he shall have the 
full power and the duties of a deputy state veterinarian within the 
county for which he is appointed county meat and herd inspector and 
he shall be ex officio county veterinarian to such county. He shall 
collect a fee of 35 cents per head for each and every bovine animal or 
carcass inspected by him and shall receipt therefor to the owner of said 
herd or carcass and shall keep an accurate account thereof, and on or 
before the tenth day of each month turn the moneys so collected in to 
the county treasurer, for the use and benefit of the general fund of said 
county, and he shall, within ten days after the inspection of any herd 
or carcass, deliver a certificate of health or inspection to the owner 
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a suspicious or positive reaction to the tuberculin test or present clinical 
evidence or lesions of disease. Such certificate shall give the description 
of the animal certified to and shall cover such particulars as age, sex, 
breed, temperature records, result of test or examination or other infor- 
mation that the State Live Stock Sanitary Board shall demand. The said 
county meat and herd inspector shall at all times work under the direc- 
tion of the State Live Stock Sanitary Board and shall be governed by its 
rules and the provisions of chapter 14, laws of 1913, creating the said 
board, and the provisions of chapter 417, laws of 1917, providing for the 
inspection of meat and meat food products. He shall, within the county 
for which he is appointed county meat and herd inspector, possess the 
full powers of the above acts, and the rules and regulations of the said 
Board given to a deputy state veterinarian, but he shall not be entitled 
to claim reimbursement from the state for any services rendered or 
expenses incurred, and his appointment shall at any time be revocable 
by the Board. 

He shall make a monthly report of all his work done in said county 
and state, setting forth in a concise manner a detailed account of his 
actions as county meat and herd inspector. 

Such inspection of the dairy and breeding herds shall commence at the 
time regarded most suitable for this work and shall continue throughout 
the year until all the bovine dairy and breeding animals have been tested. 
This testing shall be conducted as often as the county court sees fit to 
have it carried out. 

The said county meat and herd inspector shall make monthly reports, 
one copy of said report to be filed with the State Veterinarian, and one 
copy to be filed with the county court of said county, and one copy to be 
retained and kept by said inspector, said reports to be so made and filed 
on or before the tenth day of each month next succeeding that during 
which inspection was made. 

Said county meat and herd inspector shall have the right and authority 
to enter the premises where the animal or carcass subject to inspection 
hereunder may be, and make such use of said premises as may be neces- 
sary to make the inspection herein provided for, and it shall be the duty 
of the person in charge of any such animal or carcass so being inspected 
to render said inspector or his assistants such assistance as may be 
required in carrying out said work. 

Section 4. Said county meat and herd inspector shall, before entering 
upon the duties of his office, give a bond to the county for which he is 
appointed said inspector in the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars 
($2,500), conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties as here- 
inbefore provided. 

Section 5. Nothing in this act shall be construed as requiring or 
compelling any owner or owners of any cow or cows in any county of 
the state of Oregon, to have the same inspected by said inspector, unless 
said inspection is required by the existing laws of said state of Oregon. 

Section 6. This act shall not apply in any way to Tillamook county, 
Oregon, and shall not be considered to repeal in any manner chapter 146 
of the general laws of Oregon for 1917. [Chapter 383, laws of 1919.] 



RELATING TO LIVE STOCK SANITATION 93^ 

Part VIII 

SHEEP SCABIES INFECTED PREMISES NUISANCE 

LAW 

Chapter 256, Laws of 1917 

Section 1. Any range, pasture, building or corral, used for pasturing, 
grazing or harboring sheep, which for three successive years has been 
infected with sheep scabies, and infected sheep, pastured, grazed or 
harbored therein, are hereby declared to be public nuisances. 

Section 2. Upon direction of the Secretary of the Live Stock Sanitary 
Board, the district attorney for the county in which such alleged nuisance 
is located shall forthwith bring suit in the circuit court of the state of 
Oregon, or in the county court for said county, for the abatement of 
such nuisance naming the Live Stock Sanitary Board as plaintiff. 

Section 3. If it appears from the evidence submitted that for three 
successive years, prior to and including the year in which such suit is 
brought, such range, pasture, building, corral or premises have in fact 
been infected with sheep scabies, the court shall issue an order directed 
to the owner, lessee, licensee, or party in charge of such range, pasture, 
building corral or premises, to discontinue the use of the same for the 
period of one year, and shall issue a warrant directed to the Secretary of 
the Live Stock _ Sanitary Board, requiring said Board to immediately 
seize, dip and otherwise treat all animals which at the time such suit is 
brought are being pastured, grazed or habored within or upon such range, 
pasture, building or corral, until such disease is eradicated. The expense 
of such treatment shall be levied by the sheriff on the property of the 
owner of such sheep, and, in this respect, the warrant is to be deemed 
an execution against the property. 

Section 4. Any and all sheep that are not herded, pastured, or re- 
strained from running at large and are affected with scabies are hereby 
declared to be public nuisances. 

Section 5. Upon the direction of the Secretary of the Live Stock 
[Sanitary] Board, the district attorney for the county in which such 
sheep are found shall forthwith bring suit as in this act provided for 
the abatement of such nuisance, and the seizure of any such sheep, under 
warrant, shall be deemed sufficient notice to the owner thereof of the 
proceedings for the abatement of the alleged nuisance. If it appears from 
the evidence submitted that such sheep are infected with scabies, the 
court shall issue a warrant directed to the Secretary of the Live Stock 
Sanitary Board requiring said Board to immediately seize, dip or otherwise 
treat, or, if necessary, destroy such animals to effect the eradication of 
such disease, the expense of which treatment shall be levied by the sheriff 
on the property of the owner, or, if the owner can not be found, then on 
such sheep, and in this respect, the warrant is to be deemed an execution 
against property. If the sheriff is unable to make a sufficient amount 
from the sale of such sheep to cover all expense, such expense as remains 
unpaid shall be a county charge and sTiall be allowed by the county court 
from the general fund of the county. 



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Section 6. At any time after proceedings are instituted under the 
provisions of this act, the owner of such sheep, on motion of the court or 
judge thereof, may have an order to stay the execution of such warrant, 
for such period as may in the opinion of the court seem reasonable, to 
allow him to abate the nuisance himself, upon his giving an undertaking 
to plaintiff in a sufficient amount, with one or more sureties, to the satis- 
faction of the court or judge thereof, that he will abate such nuisance 
within the time and in the manner specified in such order. [Chapter 
256, laws of 1917.] 



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